double hyphen

noun

: a punctuation mark ⸗ used in place of a hyphen at the end of a line to indicate that the word so divided is normally hyphenated

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1893, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of double hyphen was in 1893

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double hyphen

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: a punctuation mark ⸗ that is used in place of a hyphen in a word divided at the end of a line to show that the word is usually hyphenated at that place

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