Nicolas Jean de Dieu (nikɔlɑ ʒɑ̃ də dyø). 1769-- 1851, French marshal under Napoleon I. Under Louis-Philippe he was minister of war (1830--34; 1840--44)
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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.