[f. QUOTE v.]
† 1. A (marginal) reference; a note. Obs.
1600. Tourneur, Trans. Metamorph., Author to Book 2. O were Thy margents cliffes of itching lust, Or quotes to chalke out men the way to sin.
1611. Cotgr., Quote, a quote, or quoting; a marke, or note vpon an article.
2. A quotation. Also quote-mark = b.
1885. Pall Mall Gaz., 23 Jan., 6/1. The ‘interviewer’ (by the way, has not the time come for leaving out the quote marks?). Ibid. (1888), 12 Dec., 11/2. Does a boy like stodgy ‘quotes’ from the ancients?
b. A quotation mark.
1888. Jacobi, Printers’ Vocab., 109.
1891. Scot. Leader, 2 April, 6. The portion of this quotation which we have put within quotes.
1895. Nation (N.Y.), 14 March, 191. Lodge’s “Americanism” … will get the “double quotes” every time.
