acute accent

British  

noun

1. the diacritical mark (´), used in the writing system of some languages to indicate that the vowel over which it is placed has a special quality (as in French été ) or that it receives the strongest stress in the word (as in Spanish hablé )

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acute accent

When they call a charge, there’s no acute accent over the “e.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2016

Exelrod has eyebrows like an owl with the ends sticking up: an acute accent on the left and a grave accent on the right.

From The Verge ● Mar. 26, 2015

All the dress had accomplished was to set an acute accent over a development which, though already at its penultimate stage, had so far escaped the notice of Cleopatra and her mother.

From Too Old for Dolls A Novel by Anthony M. (Anthony Mario) Ludovici

The acute accent placed over the "e" in his name by the French poet and by biographers, critics, and editors since was never used by the etcher.

From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker

Paroxytone, par-ok′si-tōn, adj. having the acute accent on the last syllable but one.—n. a word with an acute accent on the second last syllable.—v.t. to accent a word in this way.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

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