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fontal

[fon-tl]

adjective

pertaining to or coming from a fountain or spring.

pertaining to or being the source of something: fontal concepts.

of or pertaining to a font, as of baptism.

Origin:
1650–60; < Medieval Latin fontālis. See font¹, -al¹

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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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font¹ (fɒnt)

—n
1.	a. a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
	b. a receptacle for holy water
2.	the reservoir for oil in an oil lamp
3.	archaic, poetic or a fountain or well

[Old English, from Church Latin fons, from Latin: fountain]

'fontal¹

—*adj*

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