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garde-manger

[gard-mahn-zhey]

garde-man·ger

[gard-mahn-zhey]
noun, plural garde-man·ger. French.
1.
a cool room used for storing foods and for preparing certain dishes, especially cold buffet dishes.
2.
a chef or cook who supervises the preparation of cold dishes.

Origin:
literally, (that which) keeps food
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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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Main Entry:  garde-manger
Part of Speech:  n
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