Sally’s fleuron

[Peanuts, February 18, 1978. Click for a larger view.]

From the Oxford English Dictionary: “A flower-shaped ornament, used esp. in architecture or printing, on coins, etc.” First citation: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Legend of Good Women, circa 1385: “So were the florouns of her coroun whyte.” A Wikipedia article will tell you much more about these “horticultural dingbats.”

Look, here come some macOS fleurons now:

𐡷𐡷𐡷𐡷 𐫱𐫱𐫱𐫱 𐡸𐡸𐡸𐡸

Their names: Palmyrene right-pointing fleuron, Manichaean punctuation fleuron, Palmyrene left-pointing fleuron, all difficult to mistake for asterisks.

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[Yesterday’s Peanuts is today’s Peanuts. I prefer the black-and-white original.]