originated from the Pheonician vavv which was adopted by the Greeks and then dropped from the alphabet in the 7th century BC. The Etruscans borrowed their F from the Greeks and altered it into a symbol similar to our 8. The 8 appears in early Latin as the digraph F8 and was later simplified to F.
		FLEURON:     A horticultural dingbat. That is to say, a typographic ornament ordinarily in the shape of a flower or leaf. Some fleurons are designed to be set in bulk and in combinations, to produce what amounts to typographic wallpaper.

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