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serif

ser.if \'ser-*f\ n [prob. fr. D schreef stroke, line, fr. MD, fr. schriven 
   to write, f]r. L scribere - more at SCRIBE : any of the short lines 
   stemming from and at an angle to the upper and lo wer ends of the strokes 
   of a letter