elvish
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Elves \Elves\, n.; pl. of {Elf}.
[1913 Webster] Elvish \Elv"ish\, a.
1. Pertaining to elves; implike; mischievous; weird; also,
vacant; absent in demeanor. See {Elfish}.
[1913 Webster]
He seemeth elvish by his countenance. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
2. Mysterious; also, foolish. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
elvish
n.
1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms resembling the
beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the Book of Kells. Invented and
described by J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of The Rings as an
orthography for his fictional `elvish' languages, this system (which
is both visually and phonetically {elegant}) has long fascinated
hackers (who tend to be intrigued by artificial languages in general).
It is traditional for graphics printers, plotters, window systems, and
the like to support a Feanorian typeface as one of their demo items.
See also {elder days}.
2. By extension, any odd or unreadable typeface produced by a graphics
device.
3. The typeface mundanely called `Bocklin', an art-Noveau display
font.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
elvish
<character> 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms
resembling the beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the "Book
of Kells". Invented and described by J.R.R. Tolkien in "The
Lord of The Rings" as an orthography for his fictional
"elvish" languages, this system (which is both visually and
phonetically {elegant}) has long fascinated hackers (who tend
to be intrigued by artificial languages in general). It is
traditional for graphics printers, plotters, window systems,
and the like to support a Feanorian typeface as one of their
demo items. By extension, the term might be used for any odd
or unreadable typeface produced by a graphics device.
2. The typeface mundanely called "B"ocklin", an art-decoish
{display font}. [Why?]
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