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 [kroit-ser]  

kreut·zer

   [kroit-ser]
noun
1.
any of various former minor coins issued by German states.
2.
a former copper coin of Austria, the 100th part of a florin.
Origin:
1540–50; < German Kreuzer, equivalent to Kreuz cross (orig. the device on the coin) + -er -er1

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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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Kreut·zer

   [kroit-ser; Fr. krœ-tser]
noun
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kreutzer or kreuzer (ˈkrɔɪtsə)
 
—n
any of various former copper and silver coins of Germany or Austria
 
[C16: from German Kreuzer, from Kreuz cross, from Latin crux; referring to the cross originally stamped upon such coins]
 
kreuzer or kreuzer
 
—n
 
[C16: from German Kreuzer, from Kreuz cross, from Latin crux; referring to the cross originally stamped upon such coins]

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