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A form of type without serifs: called also grotesque. Also attributive. Cf. serif, n.
Printing. A square-cut letter without ceriph, THUS; formerly called stone-letter.
= sanserif, n. (esp. as the proper name of particular typefaces).
= grotesque, n. 3, grotesque, adj. 2a.