Régence

[ree-juhns; Fr. rey-zhahns]

Ré·gence

[ree-juhns; Fr. rey-zhahns]
adjective (often lowercase)
noting or pertaining to the style of French furnishings and decoration of c1700–20, in which a transition occurs from the Baroque style of Louis XIV to the Rococo of Louis XV.

Origin:
< French, Middle French < Medieval Latin rēgentia regency
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Régence 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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