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Roman letters   /rˈoʊmən lˈɛtərz/   Listen
Roman letters

noun
1.
A typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions.  Synonyms: roman, roman print, roman type.





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"Roman letters" Quotes from Famous Books



... the vitreous moonlight ringed with thundery gauze, fires of unnamed castelli smoulder. As we lean from ledges eighty feet in height, gas vies with moon in chequering illuminations on the ancient walls; Etruscan mouldings, Roman letters, high-piled hovels, suburban world-old dwellings plastered like martins' ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
... and distributed in a certain order, be completed, then, at the same time that the first comb is passing over the printing-type at the one end, the second comb at the other end will trace the dispatch on the prepared paper in beautiful Roman letters, and with so great a rapidity that it may be expected that five hundred messages of twenty words ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 • Various


Words linked to "Roman letters" :   proportional font, roman print, roman


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