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A typeface with letters slanting upward to the right
Answer for the clue "A typeface with letters slanting upward to the right ", 6 letters:
italic
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Word definitions for italic in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Italic \I*tal"ic\, n.; pl. Italics . (Print.) An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic , a., 2.); -- often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context typography of a typeface or font English) Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century. 2 (context typography of a typeface or font English) Having letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique. alt. 1 ...
Usage examples of italic.
Of Rome when it was a small village threatened by the other Italic tribes, the Sabines, Aequi, and Volsci?
But these letters, which were written in a minute Italic hand, in the blackest ink on Mr.
The early Italic Lucina was a goddess of light and therefore-because birth is the first time we see her-of labor and childbed as well.
On a coffee table, as in a dentist's office, were slick magazines, in casual disarray, with titles like Literature and Wit, The Poetic Athanor, The Rose and the Thorn, The Italic Parnassus, Free Verse.
It is difficult to decide the exact extent of his knowledge, but those familiar with his writings can scarcely fail to be satisfied that he had a sufficient acquaintance with the language to correct his Italic version by the Greek Testament and the LXX.
And this, of course, became the Germanic, Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Italic, Celtic, and a dozen other language families which were not recorded or even heard of by civilized peoples.
If you look at the computer code for a wordprocessor and a spreadÂsheet, you'll find they have an awful lot in common, routines for reading the keyboard, printing to the screen, searching for a given text string, changing fonts to italic, responding to a click on the mouse .