fifteener
English
Noun
fifteener (plural fifteeners)
- (UK, informal) A film assigned an age rating of 15, those under 15 not being permitted to view it.
- (bibliography, informal) A book printed in the 15th century.
- 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 97:
- 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.
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