pilcrow

[ pil-kroh ]

/ ˈpɪl kroʊ /

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noun

a paragraph mark.

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Origin of pilcrow

1400–50; apparently alteration (perhaps conformed to crow¹) of late Middle English pylcraft(e), perhaps <Old French paragrafe, pelagrapheparagraph

Where (pilcrow,) or paragraph, is placed at the side of the verse.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 401, March 1849|Various