"Long Primer" meaning in English

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Proper name

Etymology: Initially from primer (“prayer book”) from its use in those volumes in Protestant England. The qualifier was subsequently added to distinguish it from great primer and may derive from early editions published on long duodecimo paper. Head templates: {{en-prop|head=Long Primer}} Long Primer
  1. (printing, dated) The size of type between bourgeois and small pica, standardized as 10-point. Wikipedia link: long primer Tags: dated Categories (topical): Printing Synonyms: long-primer [dated] Synonyms (German contexts): corpus, Garamond Translations (Translations): Garmond (Dutch), Dessendiaan (Dutch), petit-romain (French), Korpus (German), Corpus (German), Garmond [Austrian, South-German, Swiss] (German), Garamona (Italian), entredós (Spanish), filosofía (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-Long_Primer-en-name-NsgULbPr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: media, printing, publishing

Alternative forms

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