curly quotes

A form of curly quote — A shaped opening or closing quotation mark, as distinguished from a straight quote. In English: “ ”. In some other languages: ” ”, „ ” or „ “.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of curly quote
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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