haute

[oht]

haute

[oht]
adjective
1.
high-class or high-toned; fancy: an haute restaurant that attracts a monied crowd.
2.
high; elevated; upper.
Also, haut [oh; especially before a vowel oht] .


Origin:
1780–90; generalized from haute couture, haute cuisine, etc.; < French, feminine of haut literally, high; see haughty
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Haute is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
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.
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