c michel, abbé de l'Épée

noun

Charles Michel, Abbé de l', 1712–89, French priest and teacher of the deaf: pioneer in the development of sign language.

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epee

1889, from Fr. épée, lit. "sword" from O.Fr. espe, from L. spatha (see epaulet).

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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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