- present participle of letter.
lettering
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In the latest instance, White & Case last week unveiled new corporate branding that includes lettering inspired by ancient legal slabs and photographic effects echoing rocket launches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
I can still picture the tram driver who patched together my grandmother’s clunker and the sign maker lettering Jesus’ words along the road.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The sign has gone, though the shape of the lettering can still be made out; the windows are blacked out and the doors boarded up.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Sony said the renovations will honor “its historic legacy and singular moviegoing experience,” leaving the iconic red and blue exterior lettering intact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
The black lettering is the same as all the other words I’ve been given.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
He drew near, attracted by the sight of these books bound in parrot-blue and cabbage-green paper, embossed with silver and golden letterings.
From Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
The elaborate designs are stamped upon binder's English linen cloth, with side and back titles in large letterings.
From Boy Scouts in Southern Waters by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson
They probably date from the fifteenth century, and bear all manner of devices, letterings, symbols.
From The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon
Huge letterings hang disfiguring all the blue To vaunt the grace of SNOBKINS's high-heel'd Shoe.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890 by Various
Chinese letterings dance gayly on the yellow packages.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht
