cor anglais

cor an·glais

[kawr ahng-gley] .

Origin:
1865–70; < French, equivalent to cor horn + anglais English
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Cor anglais is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. 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.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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cor anglais (ˈkɔːr ˈɑːŋɡleɪ)
 
n , pl cors anglais
music Also called: English horn a woodwind instrument, the alto of the oboe family. It is a transposing instrument in F. Range: two and a half octaves upwards from E on the third space of the bass staff
 
[C19: from French: English horn]

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