A lowercase letter.
Either of the two medieval handwriting styles minuscule cursive and Caroline minuscule.
By the eighth century, Irish scribes had refined everyday cursive writing in minuscule to allow its use for the production of quality vellum books.
A letter in these styles.
Written in minuscules, lowercase.
From French minuscule, from Latin minuscula, feminine of minusculus (“rather less, rather small”), from minus (“less, smaller”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).
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Written in minuscule handwriting style.