looped e

alternative looped-e

1. artsForm of the letter e drawn with a loop.

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   Two forms of this may be distinguished in Morland’s writing, the modern ‘looped e’, and the ‘looped e’ of the early part of the seventeenth century ; the five found in Willys’s hand are the old-fashioned ‘looped e’, ‘epsilon’, ‘epsilon with a separate cross-bar (usually flying)’, ‘blind e’, and a form which may be classed either as ‘epsilon with a cross-bar curving upwards’ or an ‘incompletely looped e’.

   1928 January 29, Marjory Hollings, “Thomas Barret A Study in the Secret History of the Interregnum”, in The English Historical Review, volume 43, number 169, page 58

2. Synonym of e caudata.

   Synonyms: e caudata