ogham
ogham an ancient British and Irish alphabet, dating from the 4th century bc and consisting of twenty characters formed by parallel strokes on either side of or across a continuous line. Recorded from the early 18th century, the word comes from Irish ogam, connected with Ogma, the name of its mythical inventor.
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