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prettygoodwordparaph - n., a flourish made after or below a signature.
Originally done to make forgery harder. So that's it's name -- I always called it a swash. From French paraphe, from Old French paraffe, abbreviated signature, from Medieval Latin paraphus, paragraph sign, short for paragraphus, paragraph.
---L.
Originally done to make forgery harder. So that's it's name -- I always called it a swash. From French paraphe, from Old French paraffe, abbreviated signature, from Medieval Latin paraphus, paragraph sign, short for paragraphus, paragraph.
---L.
