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- Printing of the sloping kind of typeface used especially for emphasis or distinction and in foreign words【印刷】（用于表示强调、区别或外来词）斜体的。
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- (of handwriting) modelled on 16th-century Italian handwriting, typically cursive and sloping and with elliptical or pointed letters（书写）仿意大利古书写体的。
词源
late Middle English （in the general sense 'Italian'）： via Latin from Greek Italikos, from Italia 'Italy'. Senses relating to writing date from the early 17th cent.