monogram

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a design made by combining or interweaving a person's or organization's initials as an identifying mark

   The silver case bore the owner's monogram in one corner.

2. 2
   verb

   to decorate or mark an object with a monogram

   The hotel monogrammed each bathrobe with its intertwined initials.

From post-classical Latin monogrammum, from Byzantine Greek monogrammon, 'a figure formed of one line or several letters combined,' built from Greek monos, 'single,' + gramma, 'letter or written mark.'

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