Initiale

Rarity: Common

The most frequent rarity: most Wikipedia articles become Commons.

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Notion

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What Wikipedia says

Une initiale, abréviation de lettre initiale, est la première lettre d’un mot, d’une phrase ou d’un paragraphe de texte. Selon le type et l’époque d’écriture, l’initiale est souvent traitée différemment du reste du texte.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Initiale (lettre)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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