See catchword on Wiktionary
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"(printing, historical) A word under the right-hand side of the last line on a book page that repeats the first word on the following page."
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"ref": "2014 November, Najwa al-Qattan, “When mothers ate their children”, in International Journal of Middle East Studies, volume 46, number 4, →JSTOR, pages 719–736:",
"text": "The war itself has several names, including \"the famine war\" (ḥarb al-majā'a) and seferberlik, a Turkish word, meaning \"travel by land,\" that began its wartime career as a reference to \"military conscription\" but quickly became a catchword for all the calamities and suffering experienced by civilians.",
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