diff --git a/man2/pipe.2 b/man2/pipe.2
index 29dd11076..0903752eb 100644
--- a/man2/pipe.2
+++ b/man2/pipe.2
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ to achieve the same result.
 .TP
 .B O_CLOEXEC
 Set the close-on-exec
-.BR ( FD_CLOEXEC )
+.RB ( FD_CLOEXEC )
 flag on the two new file descriptors.
 See the description of the same flag in
 .BR open (2)