fifteener
nounEtymology From fifteen + -er.
- Not intensely bloody decapitation, but the sort of violence you'd see in a fifteener.2009 January 24, Interviews by Becky Barnicoat, “Good to meet you: The Jackson children”, in The Guardian:
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Bibliography, Computing, Engineering, Human sciences, Information science, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Informal A book or other printed item that was printed in the 15th century (thus, during the first half-century of printing).
- When here and there throughout those volumes you meet with titles of books now either unknown entirely or of the greatest rarity; when you find the Colophon from the end or the "insignum typographi" from the first leaf of a rare "fifteener" pasted down with dozens of others varying in value, you cannot bless the memory of the antiquarian shoemaker, John Bagford.1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 97: