figlet

Meanings

nounfiglet (plural figlets)

A small fig.
Some cultivars bear a single summer crop, while others of the biblical type bear two kinds of fruit: early figs from figlets of previous year and smaller, late summer fruits.
All Kinds of Scented Wood (page 156)

nounfiglet (plural figlets)

InternetA text banner with large characters constructed from ASCII art.
If you want to get really fancy with your signature, use a figlet, which is a text representation of letters, as shown in Code Listing 11.5.
2010, Deborah S. Ray, Eric J. Ray, Unix and Linux: Visual QuickStart Guide

figlet · noun

From fig + -let.

figlet · noun

From the name of the program that creates them; derived from "Frank, Ian and Glenn's letters".

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