madrigalist
rɪ noun
a composer or singer of madrigals.
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madrigal (ˈmædrɪɡəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | music Compare glee a type of 16th- or 17th-century part song for unaccompanied voices with an amatory or pastoral text |
| 2. | a 14th-century Italian song, related to a pastoral stanzaic verse form |
| [C16: from Italian, from Medieval Latin mātricāle primitive, apparently from Latin mātrīcālis of the womb, from matrīx womb] | |
| 'madrigalesque | |
| —adj | |
| madrigalian | |
| —adj | |
| 'madrigalist | |
| —n | |
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Madrigalist
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. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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