Definitions
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- adjective Of or relating to the House of Elzevir, a celebrated family of
Dutch booksellers andpublishers of the 17th and early 18th centuries.
Etymologies
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Elzevir + -ian
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Examples
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One has only to look at the common, so-called Elzevirian, volume of thirteenth-century nouvelles to see the Frenchman as he saw himself.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878
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The volumes of this dainty series, while larger in all but thickness than the "Elzevirs," yet make their appeal by much the same qualities, compactness and portability, with a suggestion of the Elzevirian plumpness.
The Booklover and His Books Harry Lyman Koopman 1898
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