Ligurian

[li-gyoor-ee-uhn]

Li·gu·ri·an

[li-gyoor-ee-uhn]
noun
1.
an apparently Indo-European language used in ancient times along the NW coast of the Ligurian Sea.
adjective
2.
of or pertaining to Liguria or its inhabitants.

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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 scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

Origin:
1595–1605; Liguri(a) + -an
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Ligurian (lɪˈɡjʊərɪən)
 
adj
1.  of or relating to Liguria, a region of NW Italy, or its inhabitants
 
n
2.  a native or inhabitant of Liguria

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