leaded type

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Printed type in general, as opposed to engravings or handwritten documents

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. (Robert Barr, A Woman Intervenes, 1896).

Printed type which is set with extra leading in such a way as to make the text appear with greater emphasis

A thousand editors have screamed in leaded type that it were worse for the wealthy to hoard than waste. (Wm. Cowper Brann, Brann The Iconoclast Vol. 1, published 1919).

leaded type
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