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  • present participle of letter.
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lettering

[let-er-ing] / ˈlɛt ər ɪŋ /
NOUN
block letter
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In 2024, the firm shortened its identity to just “Freshfields,” dropped the angelic emblem in external communications and began using block lettering more synonymous with online startups and streetwear brands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

I can still picture the tram driver who patched together my grandmother’s clunker and the sign maker lettering Jesus’ words along the road.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Mosaic tile lettering on the floors marking each apartment number is a recreation of the originals.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

The gold lettering reads, “Gracias Dios por este logro — Thank you, God, for this accomplishment.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

As my eyes follow her, they fall upon the black lettering on the door of the truck.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

He found himself occupying the center of an enormous mandarin rug, with letterings and grotesque designs in rich blood-reds, and blues and yellows and browns.

From Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China by Gayle Porter Hoskins

She drew her breath with a quick gasp of delight as the treasure came into sight,—a long, flat-shaped box, deeply carved with letterings, mingled with the most grotesque of figures.

From An Unknown Lover by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

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

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

They probably date from the fifteenth century, and bear all manner of devices, letterings, symbols.

From The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon


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