Black-letter

"Black-letter" in a Sentence (4 examples)

a black-letter manuscript or book

In the summer of 1877, a gentleman with whom I was well acquainted, took lodgings in Preston-street, Brighton. The morning after his arrival, he found in the W.C. some leaves of an old black-letter book.

Kemble, a black-letter man!

black-letter days

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