Meaning & use
marginalia
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Notes, comments, or drawings written in the margins of a book or document.
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Scholars study the marginalia in the old manuscript for clues about its former owners.
Her copy of the novel was full of marginalia from years of rereading.
A note on using this word
Marginalia is a plural noun with no common singular form, always referring to the collection of notes as a whole rather than a single note.
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