Bourgeois
Bourgeois ({not transcribed}) , noun
[From a French type founder named Bourgeois, or from French bourgeois of the middle class; hence applied to an intermediate size of type between brevier and long primer: compare German bourgeois, borgis. Compare Burgess.]
(Printing) A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.
This line is printed in bourgeois type.
Bourgeois ({not transcribed}) , noun
[French, from bourg town; of German origin. See Burgess.]
A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class. [France.]
Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.