Definitions for black-letter

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Black-Letter is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 508 anagrams from letters in black-letter (-abceekllrtt).

Definitions for black-letter

noun

  1. a heavy-faced type in a style like that of early European hand lettering and the earliest printed books. .

Origin of black-letter

First recorded in 1630-40

Examples for black-letter

On the walls are still decipherable Scriptural texts in black letter.

German names and quotations are in Gothic type (black letter).

The two later editions, in 1614 and 1631, both in black letter, and in 4to.

It is in black letter, and is an imitation of the Roman Catholic pardons.

Had she only followed “black letter law,” the wife would have lost her home.

There are two volumes, in good preservation, and black letter.

Here they are printed in the old spelling, giving an idea of the original volume, saving the black letter type.

It is a first edition—in black letter—of Arthur Golding's Ovid!

It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529.

The last days sale contained all the English books in black letter.

Word Value for black-letter
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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