"small text" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Calque of French petit-texte. Etymology templates: {{calque|en|fr|petit-texte}} Calque of French petit-texte Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} small text (uncountable)
  1. (printing, dated) A small size of type, in French and Italian printing, usually conflated with brevier but technically treated as 7½ Didot points. Wikipedia link: small text Tags: dated, uncountable Categories (topical): Printing Translations (7½-point text): (liù) (Chinese), petit-texte (French), piccolo testo (Italian)
    Sense id: en-small_text-en-noun-PBEo9hrO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: media, printing, publishing

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