What is "virgule"

Virgule \Vir"gule\, n. [F. virgule, fr. L. virgula, dim. of virga. See Verge a rod.] A comma. [R.]

In the MSS. of Chaucer, the line is always broken by a c[ae]sura in the middle, which is pointed by a virgule.
--Hallam.

thin sloping line similar to a modern backslash, used as a comma in medieval MSS and still in modern text to indicate line breaks in poetry, 1837, from French virgule (16c.), from Latin virgula "punctuation mark," literally "little twig," diminutive of virga "shoot, rod, stick." The word had been borrowed in its Latin form in 1728.

n. (context typography English) The diagonal slash character - ''/'', used to separate parts of text, and to represent the word ''per'' in expressions such as feet/second.

n. a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information [syn: solidus, slash, diagonal, stroke, separatrix]

Virgule (from Latin , " twig") may refer to either of two typographic symbols:

• the slash ⟨ /⟩, particularly when used to mark line breaks in quoted literature
• the vertical bar ⟨⟩, particularly when used to mark metrical feet in poetry
• "Virgule" is also the French name for the comma ( , )