What is "lettering"

Usage examples of "lettering".

The notices were all in plain block lettering with standard spelling, as laid down by the director -- true Anglo-Saxon was obviously useless for the purpose, and fake archaisms were prohibited.

One of them framed an ancient orange spacesuit, the lettering Russian Cyrillic.

Turkish cigarettes and containing a long bright steel safety pin, folded curvilinear, a camisole of batiste with thin lace border, an accordion underskirt of blue silk moirette, all these objects being disposed irregularly on the top of a rectangular trunk, quadruple battened, having capped corners, with multicoloured labels, initialled on its fore side in white lettering B.

A daytime view of the garden affirmed her assumption,for the scars of fire were there as well as scraps of black whichshe could identify as bits of the binding, some with lines ofred lettering still visible.

She had finished the main part of the cope now, and was embroidering the golden lettering on the orphrey, the border which round the front edges of the cope.

The lettering on their sides told him they had come from Roosevelt Raceway, Westbury, Long Island, New York.

The blade was long, tapering, and curved, and there appeared to be runic lettering along the edge.

Leroy closed his eyes and saw the tan van with the crisp black lettering on its passenger door, very businesslike: Taglia Exterminators.

Strabismus drew the diagrams but used the newfangled appliqué alphabets printed on transparent cellophane for the lettering.

When they had decided on the lettering for the names on the cups, Simon and Eleanor went to tea, but Brat said that he had some shopping to do.

Ripping through photocopied enclosures of commendations, employment records, certifications and miscellanea, her breath caught at the document with a scrolled border and bold, old-English lettering conveying a Bachelor of Science in Education degree to Kathleen Osborn.

The white-painted lettering on the pentaprism was totally gone, the black magnesium body was scorched and buckled, and the lens cracked completely through.

BREED in purple spectral lettering and dozens of UK record-company executives in Mad Max gear hang out with tattooed models from Holland and managing directors from Polygram share bananas and sip psybertronic drinks with magazine editors and half of a progressive British hip-hop act wearing schoolgirl uniforms is dancing with modeling agency bookers along with ghosts, extras, insiders, various people from the world at large.

It seemed to me that Babette and I, in the mass and variety of our purchases, in the sheer plenitude those crowded bags suggested, the weight and size and number, the familiar package designs and vivid lettering, the giant sizes, the family bargain packs with Day-Glo sale stickers, in the sense of replenishment we felt, the sense of well-being, the security and contentment these products brought to some snug home in our soulsit seemed we had achieved a fullness of being that is not known to people who need less, expect less, who plan their lives around lonely walks in the evening.

Elegant uncial lettering in a clear, bold hand of the tenth or eleventh century, the words not in Latin but in a heavily Latinate Catalan, which I automatically translated.