fac
A factotum letter, or a similar kind of ornamentally bordered letter formerly used at the start of a chapter or section of a book.
Noun media, publishing
- A factotum letter, or a similar kind of ornamentally bordered letter formerly used at the start of a chapter or section of a book.
- If a Fac or Flowered letter be deeper than the Composing-stick we measure the exact width of it by Quotations, or common Quadrats; which we put into our Stick, and the Fac into the Galley, and then compose, and empty...
- This combination of art and accident may be continued to any given length, as punches for letter-press may be formed of steel broken as above, by cutting, drilling, punching, bending (and all their varieties upon the...
- The Fac Initial, a cheap substitute for the Pierced Initial, is made by combinations of small borders about an interior letter. As these borders are troublesome to construct and too often plainly show their joints, the...
Origin
Clipping of factotum.
Forms
Noun colloquial
- A faculty within a university.
- Here's to Hibben. We call him Jack The whitest man in all the fac. Of Princeton spirit he does not lack - 1973, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 74, page vii:
- I had my essay on a memory stick so it just needed to be printed out in the Arts Fac; I'd intended to re-read it for sense but meeting Liv seemed more important. - 2012, Jonathan Dennis, The good die and the bad live...
Origin
Clipping of faculty.