court of sessions

noun
any of state courts of criminal jurisdiction in California, New York, and a few other states.

Origin:
1695–1705

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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.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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