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Anglo-Saxon alphabet

noun

Definition of Anglo-Saxon alphabet 

: the Latin alphabet as modified for writing Old English by the addition of the four characters æ or ę, edh, thorn, and wen

— called also Old English alphabet

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1737, in the meaning defined above

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