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Adjective
- relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case; X and Y and Z etc"
Noun
- one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters"
- printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases