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1. A large ornamental letter used, esp. by the early printers, at the commencement of the chapters and other divisions of a book.

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He returned with another stick, apparently an exact fac- simile of the other, and placed it by the side of the other. - "Martin Hewitt, Investigator", Arthur Morrison.
The young men here and myself fancied you must have had a guilty part in the production of this fac- simile of our airplane. - "Around the World in Ten Days", Chelsea Curtis Fraser.
This he carelessly Unfolded- reading to himself alone,- But, since its contents became, later, known, And no one " plagued so awful bad," the same May here be given- of course without full name, Fac- simile, or written kink or curl Or clue. - "A Child-World", James Whitcomb Riley.

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