The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word EPIGRAPH
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More clues leading to the result EPIGRAPH
- Confused pie chart and inscription
- Happier somehow about start of Greek inscription
- Happier to arrange to install grand inscription
- What entertains slob, kind of music quote?
- Opening words: “What about rude fellow getting charge?”
- Engineer happier about good inscription
- Monumental legend in golf happier abroad
- Contrarily, he has slob knock inscription
- Long story short, German tennis star named by some for citation
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What does EPIGRAPH mean?
EPIGRAPH noun- An inscription, especially on a building.
- A literary quotation placed at the beginning of a book or other text.
- (of a function) The set of all points lying on or above the function's graph.
- To provide (a literary work) with an epigraph.