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Lipogrammatic

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Lip`o`gram`mat´ic    (lĭp`ô`grăm`măt´ĭk)
a.1.Omitting a letter; composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; as, lipogrammatic writings.
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Lipogrammatic books go back to the ancient Greeks, e.
Kickshaws by Morice, Dave / Word Ways
This lipogrammatic novel, published in 1969, is a 300-page masterwork of linguistic ingenuity, for the letter e, by far the most common letter in French, (1) is used in many of the most common French words (such as le (the), et (and), je (I), and etre (to be)).
Epistolae by Hauptman, Don; Kaiser, Olivier / Verbatim
In many cases, the literary constraint, not the writer, has the greater influence on the style, words and strategies used Here are brief discussions of well-known book-length works written under different constraints: Gadsby, the first E-less novel, stood alone for years as the only lipogrammatic novel in English.
Kickshaws by Morice, Dave / Word Ways
 
 
 
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