1888 Jacobi’s Printers' Vocabulary / B / Beard of a letter. [p. 7]
The blank sloping part, foot or head, of the shoulder of a type not occupied by the face of the letter.
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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.
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