- present participle of letter.
lettering
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Mosaic tile lettering on the floors marking each apartment number is a recreation of the originals.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
In December, the board decided to rename the institution and new lettering bearing Trump's full name was affixed to the centre's front portico the next day.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
Sharp lettering sits side-by-side with jovial illustrations of cannons, sombreros and brujas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
Their custom lettering, expression in sugar, or giant-sized for parties.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026
It’s a thick collection of tales from the Mahabharata with gold lettering on the cover and bright colorful pictures inside.
From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani
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He had got the books into perfect order now, and had mended the torn leaves, and had pasted up the broken backs, and substituted neat labels for the worn-out letterings.
From Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
They would rejoice to devote a leisure hour to pensive letterings in a pleasure-garden, and on an occasional holiday would gladly pursue even their severest studies, book in hand, amidst verdant bowers.
From Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by David Lester Richardson
Plain script, Old English or Roman are the only letterings used.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
Huge letterings hang disfiguring all the blue To vaunt the grace of SNOBKINS's high-heel'd Shoe.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890 by Various
He drew near, attracted by the sight of these books bound in parrot-blue and cabbage-green paper, embossed with silver and golden letterings.
From Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans