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countable and uncountable, plural boldfaces
(typography) A font that is dark, having a high ratio of ink to white space, written or drawn with thick strong lines. examples
third-person singular simple present boldfaces, present participle boldfacing, simple past and past participle boldfaced
To print or write in a boldfaced font. examples
comparative more boldface, superlative most boldface
Synonym of boldfaced quotations examples
While the retailer talks about savings of 10 percent off on every item in stock in very boldface type, there is a fine line that indicates at the bottom of the ad, “with the exception of a few fair trade items.”
1975, Fair Trade Laws: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Fourth Congress, First Session, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 34
If you make a word boldface, it is boldface on the screen.
1985, Carole Boggs Matthews, Martin S. Matthews, Word Processing for the IBM PC and PCjr and Compatible Computers, McGraw-Hill Book Company, page 396
([…]; although it was boldface, it did not stand out because all the type on the label was bold).
2001, Richard A. Lord, A Treatise on the Law of Contracts, West Group, page 480
It is boldface and placed next to the left margin.
2005, Leigh E. Zeitz, Keyboarding Made Simple, Made Simple Books
Unicode is constrained. It focuses on one essential task: encoding the world’s writing systems, or character sets. It ignores issues such as the font, the size, the alignment of the character, whether it is boldface or italic, etc.
2021, Zhiwei Xu, Jialin Zhang, Computational Thinking: A Perspective on Computer Science, Springer Nature Singapore, page 192