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
  • The third type has a pilcrow ¶ but no paragraph break. —  The Education of Children
  • Not too far down my pick of the glyphs is the pilcrow, if only for the name alone. —  Slaw
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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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