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- proper noun computing a
dingbat font (part ofWindows ) in which eachcharacter is represented by an unrelatedsymbol
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Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Wingdings.
Examples
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(That, of course, is Hear hear! written in Wingdings.)
2010 Is The Year of The Beast; Or, Updated Submission Guidelines 2010
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s, or that I have written the last page and a half in an interesting but unfortunately nonalphabetic font called Wingdings, but otherwise I haven't the faintest idea what those buttons are there for.
I'm A Stranger Here Myself Bryson, Bill 1999
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If you type Cloverfield into Microsoft Word, and then change the font to "Wingdings", you see Godzilla, the head of the Statue of Liberty, and J.J. Abrahms rolling around in money.
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If you open Word or Works and type "Q33 NY" (the code name for one of the planes that crashed into WTC), change the font size to like 40 & the font to "Wingdings," it shows something pretty screwed up.
elephants Diary Entry elephants 2001
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For instance, in the past few weeks, Umberto Eco and Nicole Krauss mysteriously disappeared from the schedule, while Salman Rushdie and Oprah Winfrey spectacularly materialized, the very presence of these two luminaries ensuring that what is already the Mother of All Wingdings has just catapulted into the celebrity stratosphere.
Victoria Lautman: Palaces, Camels, Salman, and Oprah: If It's January, It Must be the Jaipur Literature Festival Victoria Lautman 2012
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For instance, in the past few weeks, Umberto Eco and Nicole Krauss mysteriously disappeared from the schedule, while Salman Rushdie and Oprah Winfrey spectacularly materialized, the very presence of these two luminaries ensuring that what is already the Mother of All Wingdings has just catapulted into the celebrity stratosphere.
Victoria Lautman: Palaces, Camels, Salman, and Oprah: If It's January, It Must be the Jaipur Literature Festival Victoria Lautman 2012
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So Wingdings are a definite out, unless you are an alien.
Mystery of the Day 2009
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For instance, in the past few weeks, Umberto Eco and Nicole Krauss mysteriously disappeared from the schedule, while Salman Rushdie and Oprah Winfrey spectacularly materialized, the very presence of these two luminaries ensuring that what is already the Mother of All Wingdings has just catapulted into the celebrity stratosphere.
Victoria Lautman: Palaces, Camels, Salman, and Oprah: If It's January, It Must be the Jaipur Literature Festival Victoria Lautman 2012
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For instance, in the past few weeks, Umberto Eco and Nicole Krauss mysteriously disappeared from the schedule, while Salman Rushdie and Oprah Winfrey spectacularly materialized, the very presence of these two luminaries ensuring that what is already the Mother of All Wingdings has just catapulted into the celebrity stratosphere.
Victoria Lautman: Palaces, Camels, Salman, and Oprah: If It's January, It Must be the Jaipur Literature Festival Victoria Lautman 2012
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For instance, in the past few weeks, Umberto Eco and Nicole Krauss mysteriously disappeared from the schedule, while Salman Rushdie and Oprah Winfrey spectacularly materialized, the very presence of these two luminaries ensuring that what is already the Mother of All Wingdings has just catapulted into the celebrity stratosphere.
Victoria Lautman: Palaces, Camels, Salman, and Oprah: If It's January, It Must be the Jaipur Literature Festival Victoria Lautman 2012
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