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lettering

[let-er-ing] / ˈlɛt ər ɪŋ /
NOUN
block letter
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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

The first three words are in smaller print on the side while “woman” is in large lettering across the front.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The sign has gone, though the shape of the lettering can still be made out; the windows are blacked out and the doors boarded up.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

“DF-15A” was printed in bold, black lettering on its side.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Natalie’s calligraphy-like printing mixed together with Emma’s mad-scientist-style scrawl; even the pretty lettering got messier and messier, the farther he looked down the page.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Its walls were surmounted by a battlemented parapet; but the gray lead roofs were quite visible behind it, with their gutters, laps, rolls, and skylights, together with incised letterings and shoe-patterns cut by idlers thereon.

From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

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

It was an outline map of England, apparently sketched by Meynell himself, as the notes and letterings were in his handwriting.

From The Case of Richard Meynell by Mrs. Humphry Ward

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

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


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