initial
/ɪˈnɪʃ.əl/ noun B1- The first letter of a word or a name, especially of a person's full name (their initials).
- A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.
- onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology.
Plural initials
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He bestowed the same attention upon the cambric front of a shirt, which had considerably changed in color since his entrance into the prison, and he polished his varnished boots with the corner of a handkerchief embroidered with initials surmounted by a coronet.
“Can you, then, tell me the name of any woman whose initials are L.
“There are a few gipsies and labouring folk for whom I can’t answer, but among the farmers or gentry there is no one whose initials are those.
“There is Laura Lyons—her initials are L.
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