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italic
adjective
designating or of a type in which the characters slant upward to the right, used variously, as to emphasize words, indicate foreign words, set off book titles, etc. (Ex.: this is italic type)
noun
- an italic letter or other character
- italic type or print
noun
a branch of the Indo-European language family, including Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and other languages of ancient Italy, as well as Latin's descendants, the Romance languages
adjective
- of these languages
- of ancient Italy or its peoples or cultures
See italic in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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