Meaning of black-letter | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Written or printed in black letter.
2. Given to the study of books in black letter; old-fashioned.
   figuratively
3. Of or relating to the days in the calendar not marked with red letters as saints' days; unlucky; inauspicious.

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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