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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[From a French type founder named

Bourgeois

, or fr. F.

bourgeois

of the middle class; hence applied to an intermediate size of type between brevier and long primer: cf. G.

bourgeois

borgis

. Cf.

(Print.)

A size of type between long primer and brevier. See

☞

This line is printed in bourgeois type.

‖

Noun.

[F., fr.

bourg

town; of German origin. See

A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.

[France.]

Adj.

Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.

Noun.

burjois'. A small kind of printing types, in size between long primer and brevier. The type on which the main body of this work is printed.