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guil⋅le⋅met

  [gil-uh-met; Fr. geeuh-mey]
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–noun
one of two marks « or » used in French, Italian, and Russian printing to enclose quotations.
Origin:
< F, dim. of Guillaume William, prob. name of inventor
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guil·le·met   (gĭl'ə-mět', gē-ə-mě')   
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.

[French, diminutive of Guillaume, William (the name of its supposed inventor).]
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