What is a citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto called?
epigraph — (Literature) A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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