📚 noun • entry_id 42991
long s
Meanings (ES + gloss)
s larga
The ſ character, as distinct from the short s (which is the s character).
An instance lately occurred of a work so divided (a prayer-book), where the first part was printed with long s’s, and the last part with round, independent of other deviations;
The Bible itself was quite unknown ground until I was ten and stumbled upon the Apocrypha in an old edition of the Bible printed with long s’s and beautiful early type.
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