marginalia
Example Sentences
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Those marginalia are little workmanships, like the earlier ones of crayon and wool.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The interstitial collage elements play the role of footnotes, or more accurately, the marginalia of a slightly older, wiser reader revisiting a beloved book.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2023
I created a tiny app for tracking my studies and adding marginalia to digitally scanned quotes.
From The Verge ● Mar. 4, 2022
Both book and marginalia are acts of writing, collaborations between author and subject, text and reader — precisely the sort of communal-meaning making to which Barthes refers.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2021
The vines were beautiful, deep green against the glowing sun-kissed stone, like the illuminated marginalia in a manuscript.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
