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