clairobscure

clair-ob·scure

[klair-uhb-skyoor]
noun


Origin:
1710–20; < French, translation of Italian chiaroscuro chiaroscuro; see clear, obscure

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clair-obscure (ˌklɛərəbˈskjʊə) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
another word for chiaroscuro
 
[C18: from French, literally: clear-obscure]

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Clairobscure is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
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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