LIPOGRAM

lipogram

(noun) a text that excludes a particular letter or particular letters of the alphabet

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

lipogram (plural lipograms)

(literature) A word or writing that does not use a particular symbol or symbols.

Source: Wiktionary


Lip"o*gram, n. Etym: [Gr.

Definition: A writing composed of words not having a certain letters; -- as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A in the first book, no B in the second, and so on.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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