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Answer for the clue "LBJ or JFK ", 8 letters:
monogram
Alternative clues for the word monogram
- Printed on stationery or embroidered on clothing
- Hanky décor
- No good blocking second astrological symbol as personal emblem
- A graphic symbol consisting of 2 or more letters combined (usually your initials)
- Handkerchief marking
- Graphic symbol using initial letters
- Design on stationery
- Pocket embroidery, maybe
Word definitions for monogram in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
monogram \mon"o*gram\, v. t. To inscribe or ornament with a monogram.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"two or more letters intertwined," 1690s, from French monogramme or directly from Late Latin monogramma (5c.), from Late Greek monogrammon "a character formed of several letters in one design," especially in reference to the signature of the Byzantine emperors, ...
Usage examples of monogram.
Godard was simply mimicking those old Monogram Studios gangster pictures to begin with, so even the original is a copy.
I do not mean to accuse you, but you are probably aware that autos generally bear the monogram of their owner.
And there was Sir Damask and Lady Monogram, who were people moving in quite the first circles.
But Lady Monogram was not at all the person to dine with Mrs Dick Roby without other cause than this.
Then came Sir Damask and Lady Monogram, and Dick at once began about his pigeons.
Lady Monogram looked around the room carefully, and seeing Lady Eustace turned up her nose, nor did she care much for meeting Lord Mongrober.
There had been some doubt whether of right he should not have taken Lady Eustace, but it was held by Mrs Dick that her ladyship had somewhat impaired her rights by the eccentricities of her career, and also that she would amiably pardon any little wrongdoing against her of that kind,--whereas Lady Monogram was a person much to be considered.
I talk to Monogram about pigeons, to Tom there about politics, to Apperton and Lopez about the price of consols, and to you about wine.
And there were others in the back room,--Dick and Monogram standing on the rug, and the elder Mrs Roby seated in a corner,--so that there was nothing peculiar in the position of the two lovers.
Anne gazed silently at the grotesque monogram, Mark passed her another picture, then another and another.
That monogram, in turn, was identical with the one that The Shadow had found on the cigar band that he had taken from the wallet of Professor Smedley Breer!
The combination of a cross interwoven with an A and a sort of monogram of an X and an H.
In the reversed semicircle before her is another monogram, Uota or Tuota, a name which perhaps may be translated Uta, Utta, Ida, etc.
As a practical guide in determining the genuineness of a work, the monogram, from the skill and precision with which fraudulent dealers have learned to counterfeit it in almost all its varieties, has long been far worse than equivocal, and the authorship of a picture must, now-a-days, often be decided on entirely independent grounds.
A still wider field for speculation than that which grows out of the handwriting, is afforded by a device like the monogram, which, being in a great measure arbitrary, may naturally be expected to exhibit more decidedly the workings of the judgment, the fancy, or perhaps the caprice, of the artist.