colon-point

English

Noun

colon-point (plural colon-points)

(typography, obsolete) Synonym of colon ⟨:⟩.
- 1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation‎, page 9:
  Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.