"trailing s" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "long s"
        },
        {
          "word": "short s"
        },
        {
          "word": "round s"
        },
        {
          "word": "terminal s"
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          "ref": "2013, The Medieval Thought Project, Stanford University, “The Straight s, Its Round cousin, and Its Ligatures”, in Bartholomew the Englishman On the Asp, archived from the original on 17 Dec 2025:",
          "text": "Trailing s, a narrow, elongated round s that dips below the baseline, appears at the end of words.",
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          "ref": "2003, Albert Derolez, The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 107:",
          "text": "To a much greater extent than in Northern Textualis, round s was replaced at the end of words by the so-called trailing s, traced in two strokes instead of three or four and occupying less space on the line.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "The s character, with a looser descending open form than the short s."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "s"
        }
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    {
      "form": "trailing s's",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "long s"
        },
        {
          "word": "short s"
        },
        {
          "word": "round s"
        },
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          "word": "terminal s"
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      ],
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        "The s character, with a looser descending open form than the short s."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "s"
        }
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