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lipogram
[lip-uh-gram, lahy-puh-]
noun
a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.
lipogram
/ ˈɪəʊˌɡæ /
noun
a piece of writing from which all words containing a particular letter have been deliberately omitted
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Other Word Forms
- lipogrammatic adjective
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I had asked the students in my class to write a lipogram — a composition that forces the writer to omit certain letters in the alphabet in their writing.
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