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majuscule
adj 1: of or relating to a style of writing characterized by
somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries
[ant: {minuscular}, {minuscule}]
2: uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts
are in majuscule script" [synonym: {capital}, {great},
{majuscule}]
n 1: one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first
letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes
for emphasis; "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" [synonym: {capital}, {capital letter},
{uppercase}, {upper-case letter}, {majuscule}] [ant:
{lower-case letter}, {lowercase}, {minuscule}, {small
letter}]