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語源

From dinky (“tiny and cute”). The word was coined by an artist on the Australian periodical The Bulletin in the 1920s.

名詞

dinkus (plural dinkuses)

1. A small drawing or artwork used for decoration in a magazine or periodical.
2. (typography) A small ornament, usually a line of three asterisks (* * *), especially for the purpose of breaking up sections of a chapter, article, or other text.

   Coordinate term: asterism

   • 2023 January 31, Elisabeth Ribbans, “The perils of using journalist jargon outside the newsroom”, in The Guardian‎:

     More generally a dinkus is a small ornamentation, usually three asterisks, that break up sections of a book chapter, article or other written text.

参照

Further reading

• dinkus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Daisy Alioto (8 June 2018), “Ode to the Dinkus”, in Paris Review, retrieved 12 August 2019