Rochefoucauld

La Roche·fou·cauld

[la rawsh-foo-koh]
noun
Fran·çois [frahn-swa] , 6th Duc de, 1613–80, French moralist and composer of epigrams and maxims.
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La Rochefoucauld (French la rɔʃfuko) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
François (frɑ̃swa), Duc de La Rochefoucauld. 1613--80, French writer. His best-known work is Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales (1665), a collection of epigrammatic and cynical observations on human nature

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Rochefoucauld is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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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