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English
Noun
leaded type (usually uncountable, plural leaded types)
- (historical) Printed type which is set with extra leading in such a way as to give the text greater emphasis.
1897, William Cowper Brann, “Bradley-Martin Bal-Masque”, in Brann The Iconoclast, volume 1, published 1905, page 304:A thousand editors have screamed in leaded type that it were "worse for the wealthy to hoard than waste.
- (historical) Printed type in general, as opposed to engravings or handwritten documents.
1896, Robert Barr, A Woman Intervenes:There, in leaded type, was the article before him. It seemed, somehow, much more important on the printed page than it had looked in the proof.