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small text

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Calque of French petit-texte.

noun

  1. dated, uncountable A small size of type, in French and Italian printing, usually conflated with brevier but technically treated as 7½ Didot points.

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noun 7½-point text

Françaispetit-texte
Italianopiccolo testo

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"small text." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/small%20text. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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small text. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/small%20text

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"small text." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/small%20text.

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@misc{small_text_2026,
  title = {small text},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/small%20text},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}