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boldface

[bohld-feys]

noun

  1. type or print that has thick, heavy lines, used for emphasis, headings, etc. This is a sample of boldface



adjective

  1. typeset or printed in boldface.

verb (used with object)

boldfaced, boldfacing 
  1. to mark (copy) to be set in boldface.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of boldface1

First recorded in 1685–95; bold + face
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“White Rabbit Red Rabbit” doesn’t need boldface names, but it does depend on the curiosity of ordinary theatergoers.

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But Specktor is trying to do something subtler and more slippery than cataloging boldfaced names and bellyaching about how commerce has strangled art.

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Former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter’s memoir, ‘When the Going Was Good,’ chronicles the glamour, the power and the boldface names from the golden age of magazine publishing.

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Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, described the morning’s protest as “boldfaced bigotry” and called on law enforcement to investigate and prosecutors to charge those responsible, in a statement shared on X.

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He never enjoyed the boldface fame of his peers.

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