Guil'le·met` noun [ French] A quotation mark. [ R.]
• (n.) A quotation mark.
(from the article `punctuation`) ...of all the western European languages stems from the practice of the great Italian and French printers of the 15th and 16th centuries, national ...
Guillemets (t, or eɪ; lang), also called angle quotes or French quotation marks, are polylines pointed like arrows (« or »), sometimes forming a complementary set of punctuation marks used as a form of quotation mark. The symbol at either end—double « and » or single ‹ and ›—is a guillemet. They are used in a number of languages to in...
angled quotation marks used in French and some other foreign texts