della Robbia

del·la Rob·bia

[del-uh roh-bee-uh; Italian del-lah rawb-byah]
noun
Lu·ca [loo-kah] , Robbia, Luca della.
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della Robbia (Italian ˈdɛlla ˈrobbja) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
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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.
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Della Robbia
1787, from name of a family of 15c. Florentine painters and sculptors; used of wares made by Luca Della Robbia (1400-1482), or those like them.
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