| 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. |
idée fixe i·dée fixe (ē-dā fēks')
n. pl. i·dées fixes (ē-dā fēks')
A fixed idea; an obsession.