Separates titles, subtitles, chapter numbers, comments, and the body text.
1843, Harvard University, The Symbol and Odd Fellows' Magazine, Volumes 1-2 (in English), Harvard University, page 223:
Original. ⸻ THE HISTORY OF A FIVE FRANC PIECE. BY P. G. L. WYMAN, JR. ⸻ IN TWELVE CHAPTERS⸻CHAPTER II. ⸻ […] Soon a man of respectable appearance, whom I took for a laborer, came in and […]
In a bibliography or reference list, replaces the name of the author when it is the same as the previous entry in the list.
Replaces a word that has been redacted or censored – compare the omission dash ⟨⸺⟩.
