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majuscule

英 ['mædʒəskjuːl] 美
  • n. 大写字母
  • adj. [印刷] 大写字母的

英英释意


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"