Prix Goncourt

Prix Gon·court

[pree gon-koor; French pree gawn-koor]
noun
Goncourt ( def 2 ).
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Prix Goncourt (French ɡɔ̃kur) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
an annual prize for a work of French fiction
 
[C20: after the Académie Goncourt, which awards the prizes, founded by the will of Edmond Goncourt (1822--96), French writer]

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Prix Goncourt is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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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