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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Either of a pair of punctuation marks («) or (») used in some languages, such as French and Russian, to mark the beginning and end of a quotation.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A quotation-mark.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Either of the punctuation marks « or », used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as “ and ”.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. rare A quotation mark.

Etymologies

  1. From French guillemet, diminutive form of the name Guillaume ("William"), after the French typecutter Guillaume Le Bé (1525–1598) who supposedly invented the marks. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, diminutive of Guillaume, William (the name of its supposed inventor). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style says the word "guillemet" honors the the sixteenth-century typecutter Guillaume le Bé. octothorpe: #”

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  • “Dire que j'me suis '' '' 'vite' '' '' levé (oui j'mets pleind e guillemet parce que j'peux pas m'lever vite etant donné que j'fais des paralysie du sommeil) Mais si j'avais pu je l'aurais fait ...”

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  • “Heureusement (grosse guillemet) aurelien et son pote alex m'ont soutenu dans cette dure epreuve a renfort de foutage de gueule pendant les essayage!”

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  1. duckfoot quote
  1. double angle quotation mark
  1. angle quote
  1. chevron

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  1. curly quotes
  1. »«

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  • rolig « quotation marks » (French) or »quotation« (German, Slovene and many other languages) Dec 1, 2007

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