leaded typeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

leaded type (usually uncountable, 複数形 leaded types)

1. (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" Brann The Iconoclast (1905), Vol. 1, page 304

     A thousand editors have screamed in leaded type that it were "worse for the wealthy to hoard than waste.

2. (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.