pilcrow

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CSS pseudo elements used to prepend the paragraphs with a pilcrow.

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  1. The symbol (¶).

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  • The pilcrow is a typographic character largely unknown to the general public, though it may look vaguely familiar.
  • CSS pseudo elements used to prepend the paragraphs with a pilcrow. —  The Daily Whim
  • In this e-text, the second type of paragraph is marked with a pilcrow ¶. —  The Education of Children
  • In the printed book, some line numbers were shifted to avoid collision with the pilcrow symbol at the beginning of each seven-line stanza. —  Early English Meals and Manners
  • _In the printed book, some line numbers were shifted to avoid collision with the pilcrow symbol at the beginning of the stanza. —  Early English Meals and Manners
 

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  1. Alteration of Middle English pilcraft, pilcrow, paragraph, alteration (perhaps influenced by Middle English craft, skill, work, piece of work) of Old French paragrafe, pelagraphe, paragraph; see paragraph.

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  1. Formerly also pillcrow, pilkrow, pylcrow, peelcrow, corrupted forms, simulating crow (the character ¶, in older form ¶, with its black body, and with its stem variously curled or flourished, suggesting that sable bird), of pylcrafte, parcrafte, pargrafte, corrupted forms of paragraph: see paragraph.
 

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