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Christmas trivia questions for kids, including answers, for kids of all ages to get the whole family in the spirit of Christmas.
Poem typeset with generous use of decorative dingbats around the edges (1880s). Dingbats are not part of the text. In typography, a dingbat (sometimes more formally known as a printer's ornament or printer's character) is an ornament, specifically, a glyph used in typesetting, often employed to create box frames (similar to box-drawing characters), or as a dinkus (section divider).
Crīst (genitive Crīstes) is from the Greek Χριστός (Khrīstos, 'Christ'), a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Māšîaḥ, 'Messiah'), meaning 'anointed'; [7] [8] and mæsse is from the Latin missa, the celebration of the Eucharist. [9] The form Christenmas was also used during some periods, but is now considered archaic ...
Thirty forms of fleuron have code points in Unicode.The Dingbats and Miscellaneous Symbols blocks have three fleurons that the standard calls "floral hearts" (also called "aldus leaf", "ivy leaf", "hedera" and "vine leaf"); [7] twenty-four fleurons (from the pre-Unicode Wingdings and Wingdings 2 fonts) in the Ornamental Dingbats block and three more fleurons used in archaic languages are also ...
Learn about the history and meaning behind traditional Christmas colors: red, green, gold, white and purple. Experts explain their origins and significace.
Dingbat or dingbats might also refer to: Dingbat, slang term referring to someone silly, notably applied to the TV character Edith Bunker by her husband Dingbats (board game) , a board game requiring players to solve rebuses, known in America as Whatzit?
Freeform, formerly ABC Family, is known for their "25 Days of Christmas" list, and it's finally here!
In Unicode 1.0 (1991) the same block was named Miscellaneous Dingbats (not to be confused with current "Dingbats" block, which was then renamed to "Zapf Dingbats"). [ 9 ] The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Miscellaneous Symbols block: