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- noun Plural form of
pilcrow .
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All pilcrows ¶ in the body text were added by the transcriber (see endnotes).
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry
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All pilcrows ¶ in the body text were added by the transcriber (see endnotes).
The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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Slaw 2009
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Princess Elizabeth of treason to the council, and that he now alleged her to be innocent.) [Illustration] Those names preceded by similar pilcrows indicate that the "dying words" ascribed to them are identical or nearly so.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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