headstroke

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English

Etymology

head +‎ stroke

Noun

headstroke (plural headstrokes)

  1. A horizontal line at the top of a letter such as F or T.
  2. (linguistics) In some language scripts, a line written over the letters of a word.
    • 2003, Richard Gillam, Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer's Guide to the Encoding Standard:
      The distinguishing feature of Oriya letters is the curved headstroke instead of the straight horizontal headstroke of Devanagari, Bengali, and Gurmukhi.

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