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Etymology

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black +‎ lettered

Adjective

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blacklettered (not comparable)

  1. Written in black letter.
    • 2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 15, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 92:
      In the summer before Nick's senior year of high school, when Nick no longer left a three o'clock but stayed until the end of the working day, his father wrote the boy's name on a strip of masking tape and stuck it on the office door, right under his own blacklettered name.