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Definition of Bodoni

1. Noun. Italian printer who designed the Bodoni font (1740-1813).

2. Noun. A typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bodoni

Bockhart's impetigo Bodansky unit Boddhisatva Bodecker index Bodega Miwok Boden Bodge Bodhisattva Bodian's copper-protargol Bodleian

Bodo Bodo-Garo Bodo caudatus Bodo saltans Bodo urinarius Bodoni (current term) Bodoni font Bodos Body of Christ Boeck's disease

Boeck's sarcoid Boehm Boehme Boehmenism Boehmer's haematoxylin Boehmeria Boehmeria nivea Boeing Boeings Boeotia

Literary usage of Bodoni

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Voyages historiques et littéraires en Italie: pendant les années 1826, 1827 by New York Magdalen Society, Antoine Claude Pasquin Valery (1831)
"L'imprimerie de Bodoni est maintenant continuée par sa veuve ; on y voit encore les ... Si les éditions de Bodoni, vantées, encouragées par Napoléon et sa ..."

2. How to Collect Books by J. Herbert ( Slater (1905)
"... son—The Junta—Geoffrey Tory—Etienne Dolet and Bodoni— English printers—John Daye—Baskerville—The Strawberry Hill and other Presses—The Kelmscott, Vale, ..."

3. A General Biographical Dictionaryby John G. Gorton by John G. Gorton (1851)
"... and Bodoni. He was a native of Saragossa, and exercised his profession at Madrid, where he died in 1785, ..."

4. Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use; a Study in Survivals by Daniel Berkeley Updike (1922)
"Its director, Ruggeri, a learned man, was kind to Bodoni, and encouraged him in trying to improve himself—even at that early date we find ..."

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