marginal note
noun1
A note in the margin of a document.
- Not indeed for the sake of the Tract itself, which we admire little ; but of the marginal Notes, evidently in Teufelsdröckh's hand, which rather copiously fringe it.1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Helotage”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 156:
- Related terms
- annotation, gloss, illumination, interpolation