Gian Carlo (dʒan ˈkarlo). 1911--2007, Italian composer, in the US from 1928. His works include the operas The Medium (1946), The Consul (1950), Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951), and Giorno di Nozze (1988)
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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 calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.