diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
index 247f5852e2f7cb815dbfd70bfb0a5b1f2bd4599a..b582fa7ec28d1b221783e2a6bf8fb9d4dd0c8f42 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_setopt.3
@@ -332,7 +332,8 @@ want the transfer to start from.
 .B CURLOPT_COOKIE
 Pass a pointer to a zero terminated string as parameter. It will be used to
 set a cookie in the http request. The format of the string should be
-\[NAME]=[CONTENTS]; Where NAME is the cookie name.
+NAME=CONTENTS, where NAME is the cookie name and CONTENTS is what the cookie
+should contain.
 
 If you need to set mulitple cookies, you need to set them all using a single
 option and thus you need to concat them all in one single string. Set multiple