WORD OF THE DAY Thursday, February 17, 2022 OED Word of the Day: foul case, n. A type case in which the pieces of type have been placed in the wrong compartments; the presence of these misplaced pieces as a source of typographical errors.
SENTENCE EXAMPLE "Both variants could only have been deliberately set, as foul-case is not a possible explanation." - 1999, Papers Bibliogr. Soc. Amer. 93 60
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