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noun, plural cu·ri·ae 
[kyoor-ee-ee] .
[kyoor-ee-ee] . 1.
one of the political subdivisions of each of the three tribes of ancient Rome.
2.
the building in which such a division or group met, as for worship or public deliberation.
3.
the senate house in ancient Rome.
4.
the senate of an ancient Italian town.
5.
EXPAND(sometimes initial capital letter) Curia Romana.
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Curiae
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| 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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Word Origin & History
curia
1600, one of the ten divisions of each of the three ancient Roman tribes. Also "the Senate-house of Rome," transferred to the Papal court (1840).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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