great primer

English

Etymology

From primer (“prayer book”), with the qualifier distinguishing it from primer or long primer, a smaller size.

Noun

great primer (uncountable)

  1. (printing, historical) The size of type between English and paragon, standardized as 18-point, used in the printing of large-format English bibles.

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