PILCROW Definition & Meaning

pilcrow

[ pil-kroh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the character ¶, used in editing and printing to indicate the beginning of a new paragraph; paragraph mark.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

1400–50; apparently alteration (perhaps conformed to crow ¹ ) of late Middle English pylcraft ( e ), perhaps < Old French paragrafe, pelagraphe paragraph

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Stone jotted down a pilcrow next to the line and began again.

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He eventually gave his name to a “sexually precocious schoolboy” in the 2008 novel Pilcrow.

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But while National Punctuation Day, Sept. 24, may be an occasion to pour one out for the pilcrow, that’s not the case for the period.

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The pilcrow: The character that looks like a fancy backward capital P is called the pilcrow; it's used to mark the break between paragraphs.

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Another is to make your own punctuation cocktails, offered during London Design Week this year: The Type Ice Tea, Ampersand Fizz and Pilcrow Fashioned.

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