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What does black-letter mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word black-letter? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. attributive form of black letter
  2. Written or printed in black letter.
  3. Given to the study of books in black letter; old-fashioned.
  4. Of or relating to the days in the calendar not marked with red letters as saints' days; unlucky; inauspicious.
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Then he gives the fractur, or black-letter characters, with some elaborate and beautiful capitals.
Tyrwhitt substitutes to overlive, from the black-letter editions.
He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened.
This ballad is given from a black-letter copy in the Pepys Collection, which is intitled as above.
Dimmesdale, noon-day, and entirely unawares, fell into a deep, deep slumber, sitting in his chair, with a large black-letter volume open before him on the table.
Here the city is all overwritten with black-letter, and the glad Italian sun makes the effect so much the stronger.

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