cuadrilla

[kwah-dree-yuh, -dreel-yuh; Sp. kwah-three-lyah, -three-yah]

cua·dril·la

[kwah-dree-yuh, -dreel-yuh; Sp. kwah-three-lyah, -three-yah]
noun, plural cua·dril·las [-dree-yuhz, -dreel-yuhz; Sp. -three-lyahs, -three-yahs] .
the group of assistants serving a matador in a bullfight, consisting of three banderilleros and two picadors.

Origin:
1835–45; < Spanish: group, gang (orig. one of four groups), diminutive of cuadra < Latin quadra side of a square
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Cuadrilla is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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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