agrément

[ah-grey-mahnt; Fr. a-grey-mahn]

a·gré·ment

[ah-grey-mahnt; Fr. a-grey-mahn]
noun, plural a·gré·ments [-mahnts; Fr. -mahn] .
1.
Music. ornament (def. 9).
2.
agréments. Also, a·gré·mens [a-grey-mahn] . agreeable qualities or circumstances.
3.
the official approval by a government of a proposed envoy from a foreign government.

Origin:
1705–15; < French: literally, pleasure; see agreement
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Agrément is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. 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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agrément (French agremɑ̃)
 
n
formal approval for a construction project to proceed(as modifier): an agrément certificate
 a.  formal approval for a construction project to proceed(as modifier): an agrément certificate
 b.  formal approval for a construction project to proceed(as modifier): an agrément certificate
 
[C20: French, literally: agreement]

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