/ˈsɪrəˌnoʊ də ˈbɜrdʒəˌræk, -ʒə-, ˈbɛər-; French siranɔ də bɛrʒəˈrak/Show Spelled[sir-uh-noh duhbur-juh-rak, -zhuh-, bair-; French see-ra-naw duh ber-zhuh-rak]Show IPA
Savinien (savinjɛ̃). 1619--55, French writer and soldier, famous as a duellist and for his large nose. He became widely known through the verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac (1897) by Edmond Rostand
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.