Blacklettered

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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

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"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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