altorelievo

al·to-re·lie·vo

[al-toh-ri-lee-voh]
noun, plural al·to-re·lie·vos.

Origin:
1710–20; < Italian alto rilievo high relief

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alto-relievo or alto-rilievo (ˌæltəʊrɪˈliːvəʊ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n , pl -vos
another name for high relief
 
[C18: from Italian]
 
alto-rilievo or alto-rilievo
 
n
 
[C18: from Italian]

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Altorelievo is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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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