black letter

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A highly calligraphic Western European script style used from approximately 1150.; A Northern European style of type based on the script, with contrasting thick-and-thin, angular strokes forming upright letterforms, and usually set with a dark typographic colour on the page. countable,uncountable
    — Also we discovered what is still more curious, an English version of the black-letter Latin.
  2. A highly calligraphic Western European script style used from approximately 1150.; Text set in black-letter type. countable,uncountable
  3. The basic standard elements for a particular field of law, which are generally known and free from doubt or dispute. countable,uncountable
    — [The US Supreme Court] did not raise the fundamental normative question of the patent-ability of genes. Instead, it took a black letter approach to interpreting the Patent Act, which had first been enacted in 1790, and which in its current form states that “whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.”

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black letters plural blackletter alternative black-letter alternative
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