lipsum
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Noun[edit]
lipsum (plural lipsums)
- Clipping of lorem ipsum.
- 2006, Christian Crumlish, Kate J. Chase, Microsoft FrontPage 2003: Savvy, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 93:
- A traditional way to represent dummy text in typeset documents is with a passage of medieval Latin that begins “Lorem ipsum. ..” (or “lipsum” for short).
- 2011, Alexander Dawson, Distinctive Design: A Practical Guide to a Useful, Beautiful Web, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 73:
- Some designers use Lipsum or dummy text in site construction or placeholder pages to populate a site's index. Lipsum text is a type of filler content that has been used for centuries as a method to see what a design would look like once relevant content is added.