1888 Jacobi’s Printers' Vocabulary / M / Measure. [p. 82]
The given width of a page of type. Measures are generally made to pica ems, but sometimes in narrow or double-column matter an en is used in addition.
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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.