leaded type

noun

Printed type which is set with extra leading in such a way as to give the text greater emphasis.

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Meanings

nounleaded type (usually uncountable, plural leaded types)

plural leaded types

  1. historicaluncountableusuallyPrinted type which is set with extra leading in such a way as to give the text greater emphasis.

    A thousand editors have screamed in leaded type that it were "worse for the wealthy to hoard than waste.

    1897, William Cowper Brann, “Bradley-Martin Bal-Masque”, in Brann The Iconoclast, volume 1, published 1905, page 304
  2. historicaluncountableusuallyPrinted type in general, as opposed to engravings or handwritten documents.

    There, in leaded type, was the article before him. It seemed, somehow, much more important on the printed page than it had looked in the proof.

    1896, Robert Barr, A Woman Intervenes
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APA

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Chicago

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