lettre minuscule

Definitions of lettre minuscule
  1. noun
    the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
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    antonyms:
    lettre majuscule
    one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis
    type of:
    caractère
    a written symbol that is used to represent speech
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