[Conjectured to be from the name of a French printer or type-founder.] A size of printing type between Long Primer and Brevier.
1824. J. Johnson, Typogr., II. ii. 16. Two lines of some Diamond will answer to one of Bourgeois.
1852. W. Wilks, Hist. Half Century, Pref. p. iii. He did hope, in his inexperience, to have found room for all he had to say within twenty-three sheets of bourgeois leaded.
