Blacklettered
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Written in black letter. not-comparable
"In the summer before Nick's senior year of high school, when Nick no longer left a three o'clock but stayed until the end of the working day, his father wrote the boy's name on a strip of masking tape and stuck it on the office door, right under his own blacklettered name."
Example
More examples"In the summer before Nick's senior year of high school, when Nick no longer left a three o'clock but stayed until the end of the working day, his father wrote the boy's name on a strip of masking tape and stuck it on the office door, right under his own blacklettered name."
Etymology
From black + lettered.
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