French spacing in English

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        "The archaic practice (though still current in French) of inserting a space around colons, semicolons, question marks and exclamation marks, and also two spaces between sentences."
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        "(typography) The archaic practice (though still current in French) of inserting a space around colons, semicolons, question marks and exclamation marks, and also two spaces between sentences."
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      "expansion": "French spacing (uncountable)",
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        "The archaic practice (though still current in French) of inserting a space around colons, semicolons, question marks and exclamation marks, and also two spaces between sentences."
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          "typography",
          "typography"
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          "question mark",
          "question mark"
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        "(typography) The archaic practice (though still current in French) of inserting a space around colons, semicolons, question marks and exclamation marks, and also two spaces between sentences."
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"French spacing" meaning in English

Noun