pilcrow

[pil-kroh]

noun

Origin of pilcrow

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

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