Meanings
long primer1
- alternativeAlternative form of Long Primer.
The difference to you of treacle on a marble background is scarcely greater than that of printers' ink on newspaper to me. But anything smaller than pica I do not read with comfort, and below long primer I cannot read at all.
1914, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados
Long Primer2
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounThe size of type between bourgeois and small pica, standardized as 10-point.
Origin
Initially from primer (“prayer book”) from its use in those volumes in Protestant England. The qualifier was subsequently added to distinguish it from great primer and may derive from early editions published on long duodecimo paper.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Dutch Garmond, Dessendiaan
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French petit-romain
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German Korpus, Corpus
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Italian Garamona
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Polish garmond, garmont
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Spanish entredós, filosofía
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Cite this entry
long primer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/long%20primer
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