quotation mark
quotation mark
nounDefinition of QUOTATION MARK
: one of a pair of punctuation marks “ ” or ‘ ’ used chiefly to indicate the beginning and the end of a quotation in which the exact phraseology of another or of a text is directly cited
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circa 1859
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