majuscule

Words with a similar base: majuscule

'majuscule'

[capital.n.04] as in: one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis

Examples:
printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters

'majuscule'

[majuscule.a.01] as in: of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries

'majuscule'

[capital.s.03] as in: uppercase

Examples:
capital A
great A
many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script

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