marginalia
/ˌmɑːdʒɪˈneɪlɪə
/plural noun
Notes written in the margins of a text: the book was covered with marginalia figurative you will be relegated to the marginalia of political life...
- I read Hegel against the grain; proceeding from certain footnotes and marginalia in the texts, I move toward recovering the history of those which the dialectic leaves behind.
- Harvey's extraordinarily wide range of interests is reflected in the marginalia beautifully written in the books he owned.
- When he wrote marginalia into a German book published in Roman type, he composed the notes in Roman script (which I can read and translate).
Origin
Mid 19th century: from medieval Latin, neuter plural of marginalis, from margo, margin- (see margin).
Rhymes
- look smart
- look someone in the eye (or face)
- look someone up
- look someone up and down
- look something out
- look something up
- look the other way
- look the part
- look to one's laurels
- look to the future
- look up
- lookup
- lookup table
- look up to
- looky
- looky-loo
- loom
- loon
- looney tunes
- loonie
- looniness
- loon pants
- loons
- loony
- loony bin