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noun
A small drawing or artwork used for decoration in a magazine or periodical.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A small ornament, usually a line of three asterisks (* * *), especially for the purpose of breaking up sections of a chapter, article, or other text.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: media, publishing, typography
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History
From dinky (“tiny and cute”). The word was coined by an artist on the Australian periodical The Bulletin in the 1920s.
