colon-point
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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.