open quote

or open quotes

noun

1. the quotation mark used to begin a quotation (“ or ").
2. (used by a speaker to signify that a quotation will follow.)

Example Sentences

It’s likely they decided to take the comma, rotate it 180 degrees and move it to the top of the line: Voilà, a single open quote mark.

From Washington Post

Speaking of which, have you ever noticed how often news channel chyrons use a single open quote mark rather than an apostrophe?

From Washington Post

As the great chronicler of those years, Taylor Branch, wrote: The movement here gained the force to open, quote, “the stubborn gates of freedom,” and out flowed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, immigration reform, Medicare, Medicaid, open housing.

From Washington Post

The text indicated quotes by repeating the open quote character on each new line.

From Project Gutenberg

Removed open quote at beginning of a page break of poem IX.

From Project Gutenberg