"curly quote" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: curly quotes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} curly quote (plural curly quotes)
  1. (typography) A shaped opening or closing quotation mark, as distinguished from a straight quote. In English: “ ”. In some other languages: ” ”, „ ” or „ “. Categories (topical): Typography Synonyms: smart quotes Translations (shaped opening or closing quotation mark): nyomdai idézőjel (Hungarian), macskaköröm (note: slightly colloquial) (Hungarian), kunkorodó idézőjel [colloquial] (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-curly_quote-en-noun-u~tNavp- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: media, publishing, typography

Inflected forms

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