pilcrow

pilcrow
/pil"kroh/, n.
a paragraph mark.
[1400-50; appar. alter. (perh. conformed to CROW1) of late ME pylcraft(e), perh. < OF paragrafe, pelagraphe PARAGRAPH]

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  • Pilcrow — Pil crow, n. [A corruption of {Paragraph}.] (Print.) a paragraph mark, [para]. [Obs.] Tusser. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Pilcrow — The pilcrow (¶; Unicode U+00B6, HTML entity amp;para;), also called the paragraph sign or the alinea (Latin: a linea , off the line ), is a typographical character commonly used to denote individual paragraphs. This non alphabetic symbol varies… …   Wikipedia

  • Pilcrow — Satzzeichen , –, , ―  . ,  , ,  ; ,  : ,  … ,  ·  ¿, ?, !, ¡, ‽, ⸮ „…“, »…« … …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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  • pilcrow — noun The paragraph mark ¶ …   Wiktionary

  • pilcrow — n. paragraph mark (Archaic) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • pilcrow — pil·crow …   English syllables

  • pilcrow — The symbol used by editors to indicate a new paragraph …   Grandiloquent dictionary

  • pilcrow — /ˈpɪlkroʊ/ (say pilkroh) noun See paragraph (def. 2). {? a variant of  paragraph which appeared in Middle English as pylcraft} …  

  • pilcrow — ˈpilˌkrō noun ( s) Etymology: probably alteration of Middle English pylcrafte, modification of Late Latin paragraphus more at paragraph : a paragraph mark ¶ …   Useful english dictionary

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