Meaning of fifteener | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A film assigned an age rating of 15, those under 15 not being permitted to view it.
   UK, informal
2. A book or other printed item that was printed in the 15th century (thus, during the first half-century of printing).
   informal

Examples

“Not intensely bloody decapitation, but the sort⟳ of violence you'd see⟳ in a fifteener.”

“When here and there throughout those volumes you meet⟳ with titles of books now either unknown entirely or of the greatest rarity; when you find⟳ the Colophon from the end⟳ or the "insignum typographi" from the first leaf of a rare "fifteener" pasted down with dozens of others varying in value, you cannot bless the memory of the antiquarian shoemaker, John Bagford.”

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