diff --git a/types/markdown-escape/index.d.ts b/types/markdown-escape/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for markdown-escape 1.1
+// Project: https://github.com/kemitchell/markdown-escape.js
+// Definitions by: Christoph Thiede <https://github.com/LinqLover>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+type CharacterSets = [
+    'asterisks',
+    'number signs',
+    'slashes',
+    'parentheses',
+    'parentheses',
+    'square brackets',
+    'square brackets',
+    'angle brackets',
+    'angle brackets',
+    'underscores'
+];
+
+declare namespace markdownEscape {
+    type CharacterSet = CharacterSets[number];
+}
+
+declare function markdownEscape(string: string, skips?: markdownEscape.CharacterSet[]): string;
+
+export = markdownEscape;
diff --git a/types/markdown-escape/markdown-escape-tests.ts b/types/markdown-escape/markdown-escape-tests.ts
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+import * as markdownEscape from 'markdown-escape';
+
+// $ExpectType string
+markdownEscape("#1! We're #1!");
+
+// $ExpectType string
+markdownEscape('one (1)', ['parentheses']);
+
+const characterSet: markdownEscape.CharacterSet = 'asterisks';
+const string: string = characterSet;
diff --git a/types/markdown-escape/tsconfig.json b/types/markdown-escape/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "markdown-escape-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/markdown-escape/tslint.json b/types/markdown-escape/tslint.json
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+{
+    "extends": "dtslint/dt.json"
+}