What is "guillemet"

Guillemet \Guil"le*met`\, n. [F.] A quotation mark. [R.]

n. Either of the punctuation marks « or », used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as “ and ”.

Guillemets (, or ; ), also called angle quotes, Latin quotation marks, or French quotation marks, are polylines pointed like arrows (« or »), sometimes forming a complementary set of punctuation marks used as a form of quotation mark.

The symbol at either end—double « and » or single ‹ and ›—is a guillemet. They are used in a number of languages to indicate speech. They resemble the symbols for lesser than ( ), greater than ( >), as well as rewind and fast forward on various media players, such as VCRs, DVD players, and MP3 players.