Citations:vexil

English citations of vexil

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Uncertain sense 1: same as vexillum?

• 1870, A Complete Parochial History of the County of Cornwall

  A hand in front held up a cross, with a vexil attached to it.

Uncertain sense 2

• 1988, Derrick de Kerckhove, Charles Lumsden, The Alphabet and the Brain: The Lateralization of Writing (page 132)

  Length is measured in vexils, where for any alphabet in any given font the vexil is the altitude of the letter-space.