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Flower

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-006982

A typographic ornament, also called a fleuron, used for decoration in printed material. These non-alphanumeric characters often take the form of stylized floral or leaf patterns and are used to mark paragraph breaks, fill white space, or form decorative borders. The use of such ornaments dates back to the earliest days of movable type, with many historic designs still available in modern digital fonts.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-006982
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectIndustrial printing
Synonymshead; pseudanthium; bloom; blossom
See alsoHead
TranslationsGerman: Schmuckletter; Spanish: florón; French: fleuron
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-006982",
  "term": "Flower",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A typographic ornament, also called a fleuron, used for decoration in printed material. These non-alphanumeric characters often take the form of stylized floral or leaf patterns and are used to mark paragraph breaks, fill white space, or form decorative borders. The use of such ornaments dates back to the earliest days of movable type, with many historic designs still available in modern digital fonts.",
  "synonyms": [
    "head",
    "pseudanthium",
    "bloom",
    "blossom"
  ],
  "subject": "Industrial printing",
  "see_also": [
    "head"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "de": "Schmuckletter",
    "es": "florón",
    "fr": "fleuron"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/flower/"
}

Record 2,606 of 7,361 in Industrial and trades terminology (MLC-0113). Request the full dataset.