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virgule
[ vur-gyool ]
noun
- a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur:
The defendant and his/her attorney must appear in court.
- a dividing line, as in dates, fractions, a run-in passage of poetry to show verse division, etc.:
3/21/27; “Sweetest love, I do not go/For weariness of thee.” (John Donne)
- a short oblique stroke (/) used in computing; a forward slash.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of virgule1
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Example Sentences
He created the curved Virgule heel as a signature, to differentiate his work post-Dior.
He may be known for the Virgule, but the feeling of his new exhibition more closely resembles an exclamation mark.
His beard was trimmed to a moustache and virgule (now called imperial) and he carried a sword at his side and a cane in his hand.
Virgule, vėr′gūl, n. a little rod: a mark of punctuation, a comma.
He wore the tuft of beard called a virgule (a comma) and a moustache.
It was impracticable to reproduce the original punctuation, which mainly consisted of the virgule or slash.
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