BLACK-LETTER

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
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Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.

2.
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Given to the study of books in black letter; that is, of old books; out of date. Kemble, a black-letter man! J. Boaden.

3.
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Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar not marked with red letters as saints' days. Hence: Unlucky; inauspicious.