Crossword clues for broadsheet
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Broadside \Broad"side`\, n.
(Naut.) The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter.
A discharge of or from all the guns on one side of a ship, at the same time.
A volley of abuse or denunciation. [Colloq.]
(Print.) A sheet of paper containing one large page, or printed on one side only; -- called also broadsheet.
Wiktionary
a. 1 In the format of a broadsheet. 2 Relating to a broadsheet or broadsheets. n. A newspaper having pages of standard dimensions (as opposed to a ''tabloid''), especially one that carries serious treatment of news.
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Wikipedia
A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long vertical pages (typically ). The term derives from types of popular prints usually just of a single sheet, sold on the streets and containing various types of material, from ballads to political satire. The first broadsheet newspaper was the Dutch Courante uyt Italien, Duytslandt, &c. published in 1618.
Other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner and tabloid/ compact formats.
Broadsheet was a Telefís Éireann television current affairs programme presented by John O'Donoghue, Brian Cleeve, and Brian Farrell and broadcast in Ireland live on weekday evenings from 1962 to 1963.
Broadsheet was a monthly New Zealand feminist magazine produced from 1972 to 1997. The magazine played a significant part in New Zealand women's activism.
It was co-founded by Anne Else and Sandra Coney. The magazine was "New Zealand's first feminist magazine focusing on women's issues and information sharing on a national and international level."
The first issue was released in July 1972, and "consisted of twelve foolscap pages - stapled". 200 copies were produced, which sold out, and before the second issue was published they had 50 paid subscribers.
Maori issues sometimes received considerable coverage in the magazine, which provoked "fierce exchanges in the letters pages".
Broadsheet is the largest of newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages.
Broadsheet may also refer to:
- Broadsheet ballad, a single sheet of inexpensive paper printed on one side with a ballad
- Broadsheet (magazine), former New Zealand feminist magazine
- Broadsheet (TV series), former Irish television current affairs programme
- Broadsheet, a printing format on a large sheet of paper printed on one side only, largely of historical importance for publishing ephemera
- Broadsheet (website), an Australian online city guide covering food and drink, fashion and shopping, art and design, and entertainment
Broadsheet is an Australian online city guide. It was founded by Nick Shelton and launched in October 2009. The site covers news related to food and drink, fashion and shopping, art and design, and entertainment. In addition to this, it has an extensive directory of cafes, restaurants, bars and shops which contains professional imagery and short descriptions of each venue.
Usage examples of "broadsheet".
He had become more imaginative, rivaling the infamous Jack Shepperd with some of his daring robberies and escapes, and not for one moment had anyone connected the Cat, as the broadsheets had styled him, to his lordship the Earl of Glenshiel.
Fra Diavolo had no such scruples, and sent his broadsheet writers in for the kill.
Dr Humery was for Diether, as I was, and to this purpose we printed a broadsheet taking his part.
Mage Guardians would hereafter pop through Ladders with bound stacks of broadsheets on a regular basis.
It was as informal now as any Orthean place of work, the tables piled with papers and broadsheets as well as tapes, graphs pinned to the wall-hangings beside old illuminated maps, haphazard cartography beside satellite-survey prints.
Headquarters: on back pages from tabloids to broadsheets, the filly kicked football into second place for two whole days.
They will treat of the habits and manners of highwaymen, and quote obscure broadsheets and songs of the people to colour their story, yet decline to bestow more than a passing remark upon our domestic kings: because they are not hereditary, we may suppose.
Real life crimes of passion were the subject of chapbooks and broadsheets which sold in vast quantities long before the development of the crime novel, and surviving examples of these publications which describe the terrible acts of lovers driven to murder, each illustrated with lurid, woodblock illustrations, are now keenly collected.
Our two inimitable drolls did a roaring trade with their broadsheets among lovers of the comedy element and nobody who has a corner in his heart for real Irish fun without vulgarity will grudge them their hardearned pennies.
The second broadsheet stated that our headquarters were at Vyazma, that Count Wittgenstein had defeated the French, but that as many of the inhabitants of Moscow wished to be armed, weapons were ready for them at the arsenal: sabers, pistols, and muskets which could be had at a low price.
Each carried a bundle of newspapers and a large broadsheet with the simple legend: MURDER OF SIGSBEE MANDERSON Sir James smiled and rattled the money in his pockets cheerfully.
Early in December Richard had lunch with the Features Editor of the Sunday broadsheet which would be publishing his long profile of Gwyn Barry.
The papyrus, the broadsheet newspaper, and the computer screen are three examples of the vertical scroll - from top to bottom or vice versa.
In his broadsheets Rostopchin impressed on them that to leave Moscow was shameful.
It is obvious that there would have been even less reason to expect a disturbance among the people if after the battle of Borodino, when the surrender of Moscow became certain or at least probable, Rostopchin instead of exciting the people by distributing arms and broadsheets had taken steps to remove all the holy relics, the gunpowder, munitions, and money, and had told the population plainly that the town would be abandoned.