⸺
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Translingual
Symbol
⸺
- The omission dash. Replaces (part of) a word or name that is redacted or censored. The 3-em dash ⟨⸻⟩ may be used instead when the entire word is omitted.
- It was alleged that D⸺ had been threatened with blackmail.
- 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “Major Major Major Major”, in Catch-22 […] (in English), New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 90:
- He was often tempted to join Major ⸺ de Coverley, but pitching horseshoes all day long seemed almost as dull as signing 'Major Major Major' to official documents, and Major ⸺ de Coverley's countenance was so forbidding that Major Major was in awe of approaching him.
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