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figlet

noun
/ˈfɪɡ.lət/

Etymology

From the name of the program that creates them; derived from "Frank, Ian and Glenn's letters".

  1. derived from 𐤐𐤂
  2. derived from fīcus
  3. derived from *fīca✻
  4. derived from figa
  5. derived from figue
  6. derived from figue
  7. inherited from fige
  8. suffixed as figlet — “fig + let”

Definitions

  1. A small fig.

    • Some cultivars bear a single summer crop, while others of the biblical type bear two kinds of fruit: early figs from figlets of previous year and smaller, late summer fruits.

  2. A text banner with large characters constructed from ASCII art.

    • If you want to get really fancy with your signature, use a figlet, which is a text representation of letters, as shown in Code Listing 11.5.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for figlet. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA