English Dictionary

virgule

/ˈvəː.ɡjuːl/

noun

(typography, obsolete or historical) A medieval punctuation mark similar to the slash ⟨/⟩ or pipe ⟨ Unsupported titles/Vertical line ⟩ and used as a scratch comma and caesura mark.

She used a virgule to separate the two clauses.

意味（1）

(typography, obsolete or historical) A medieval punctuation mark similar to the slash ⟨/⟩ or pipe ⟨ Unsupported titles/Vertical line ⟩ and used as a scratch comma and caesura mark.

Other Chaucerian manuscripts had the virgule (or virgil or oblique: /) at the middle of lines.

意味（2）

(typography, dated) A slash, ⟨/⟩ or ⟨／⟩, particularly (literature) in its use to mark line breaks within quotes.

意味（3）

(typography, dated) A pipe, ⟨ Unsupported titles/Vertical line ⟩, particularly (poetry) in its use to mark metrical feet.