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blackletter

noun

Meaning

  1. A Northern European style of type, with contrasting thick-and-thin, angular strokes forming upright letterforms, and usually set with a dark typographic colour on the page.
  2. Text set in black-letter type.
  3. The basic standard elements for a particular field of law, which are generally known and free from doubt or dispute.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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