capa

[kah-puh]

ca·pa

[kah-puh]
noun
the red cloak of a bullfighter, used chiefly in attracting the attention of the bull and guiding the course of its attack.

Origin:
1780–90; < Spanish < Late Latin cappa; see cape1

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Capa 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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Cap·a

[kap-uh]
noun
Robert (Andrei Friedmann), 1913–54, U.S. photographer, born in Hungary.
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Capa (ˈkæpə)
 
n
Robert, real name André Friedmann. 1913--54, Hungarian photographer, who established his reputation as a photojournalist during the Spanish Civil War.

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CAPA
Critical Aquifer Protection Area
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