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Flotage

[floh-tij]

noun

an act of floating.

the state of floating.

floating power; buoyancy.

anything that floats; flotsam.

the part of a ship above the water line.

Also, floatage.

Origin:
1620–30; float + -age; compare French flottage

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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.

a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

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flotage or floatage (ˈfləʊtɪdʒ)

—n
1.	the act or state of floating; flotation
2.	buoyancy; power or ability to float
3.	objects or material that float on the surface of the water; flotsam

floatage or floatage

—n

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"...I am useless, one more girl who couldn't be sold. When I visit the family now, I wrap my American successes around me like a private shawl. I am worthy of eating the food. From afar I can believe my family loves me fundamentally. They only say, "When fishing for treasures in the flood, be careful not to pull in girls," because that is what one says about daughters. But I watched such words come out of my own mother's and father's mouths; I looked at their ink drawing of poor people snagging their neighbors' flotage with long flood hooks and pushing the girl babies on down the river. And I had to get out of hating range. I read in an anthropology book that Chinese say, "Girls are necessary too"; I have never heard the Chinese I know make this concession. Perhaps it was a saying in another village."

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