A 'FONT' OF TYPE IS AN INDEFINITE QUANTITY HAVING ALL THE PROPER PROPORTIONS OF 'SORTS

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1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

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