1. Plural of brevier; a size of type in printing, smaller than bourgeois but larger than minion.
Usage: printing; historical; technical
2. Plural of brevier; a book of prayers or religious offices, especially a shortened or abridged version of a breviary.
Usage: religious; archaic

Examples

• The printer selected breviers for the footnotes to save space on the page.
• Medieval monks carried breviers containing abbreviated liturgical texts.
• The typesetter arranged the text in breviers to fit the narrow column width.
• Several antique breviers were displayed in the museum's religious manuscripts collection.