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trailing s en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The s character, with a looser descending open form than the short s.
   • Trailing s, a narrow, elongated round s that dips below the baseline, appears at the end of words. 2013, The Medieval Thought Project, Stanford University, “The Straight s, Its Round cousin, and Its Ligatures”, in Bartholomew the Englishman On the Asp, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2025:
   • To a much greater extent than in Northern Textualis, round s was replaced at the end of words by the so-called trailing s, traced in two strokes instead of three or four and occupying less space on the line. 2003, Albert Derolez, The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 107:

Forms

Coordinates

round s · long s · terminal s · short s

Hypernyms

s