diamanté

[dee-uh-mahn-tey]

di·a·man·té

[dee-uh-mahn-tey]
noun
1.
a sequin, rhinestone, or other glittery ornamentation on a garment.
2.
fabric covered or patterned with such ornamentation.

Origin:
1900–05; < French diamanté ornamented with diamonds, past participle of diamanter, verbal derivative of diamant diamond
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Diamanté 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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diamanté (ˌdaɪəˈmæntɪ, ˌdɪə-)
 
adj
1.  decorated with glittering ornaments, such as artificial jewels or sequins
 
n
2.  a fabric so covered
 
[C20: from French, from diamanter to adorn with diamonds, from diamantdiamond]

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