noun. a lengthy quotation that is formatted so as to be set off from the main text on a webpage by means of italicization, indentation, use of a different typeface or any combination of these.

"| Reply embedded. put in blockquote though i see it came with a purple border ... might want that to be customizable ... at least, as i noted in my entry, it's not an autoplagiarism mechanism like we had with Radio. xian"