Definition of "dinkus"

dinkus

noun
plural dinkuses
1. A small drawing or artwork used for decoration in a magazine or periodical.
2. (typography) A small ornament, usually a line of three asterisks (* * *), especially for the purpose of breaking up sections of a chapter, article, or other text.
  Quotations
  More generally a dinkus is a small ornamentation, usually three asterisks, that break up sections of a book chapter, article or other written text.
  2023 January 31, Elisabeth Ribbans, “The perils of using journalist jargon outside the newsroom”, in The Guardian‎