écu

[ey-kyoo; Fr. ey-ky]

é·cu

[ey-kyoo; Fr. ey-ky]
noun, plural é·cus [ey-kyooz; Fr. ey-ky] .
1.
the shield carried by a mounted man-at-arms in the Middle Ages.
2.
any of various gold and silver coins of France, issued from the 13th through the 18th centuries, bearing the figure of a shield.

Origin:
1695–1705; < French; Old French escu < Latin scūtum shield
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écu is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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écu (eɪˈkjuː, French eky)
 
n
1.  any of various former French gold or silver coins
2.  a small shield
 
[C18: from Old French escu, from Latin scūtum shield]

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