/ˈɛstərˌhɑzi; French ɛstɛraˈzi/Show Spelled[es-ter-hah-zee; French e-ster-a-zee]Show IPA
noun
Ma·rie Charles Fer·di·nand Wal·sin /maˈri ʃarl fɛrdiˈnɑ̃ valˈsɛ̃/Show Spelled[ma-ree sharl fer-dee-nahn val-san]Show IPA, 1847–1923, French army officer who confessed forging evidence that convicted Alfred Dreyfus.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
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 children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a noble Hungarian family that produced many soldiers, diplomats, and patrons of the arts. Prince Miklós József Esterházy (1714--90) rebuilt the family castle of Esterháza and employed Haydn as his musical director (1766--90)