dash-shaped

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Ayah, in the mouth of a lisping baby, is one of the prettiest words of the East, and is learned as soon as papa and mamma, being equally easy of articulation. They are a macron diacritic, a dash-shaped symbol and a breve diacritic, a u-shaped symbol.

Various - Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433: Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852