Entertainment / Literature / Long S: One Old English variation for writing the letter s that continued to be used in Shakespeare's day--even up through the 1790s. The long s looked much like the lower-case letter f without a horizontal crossbar.
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Long Adjective Synonyms: extensive, extended, elongate(d), large, great, big
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