Beauharnais (French boarnɛ) ![]() | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Alexandre (alɛksã̃dr), Vicomte de. 1760--94, French general, who served in the War of American Independence and the French Revolutionary wars; first husband of Empress Joséphine: guillotined |
| 2. | his son, Eugène de (øʒɛn də). 1781--1824, viceroy of Italy (1805--14) for his stepfather Napoleon I |
| 3. | (Eugénie) (øʒeni) Hortense de (ɔrtɑ̃s də). 1783--1837, queen of Holland (1806--10) as wife of Louis Bonaparte; daughter of Alexandre Beauharnais and sister of Eugène: mother of Napoleon III |
| 4. | See Josephine Joséphine de (ʒozefin də), previous name of the Empress Josephine |
| 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. |