olga, st.

Ol·ga

[ol-guh, ohl-; Russian awl-guh]
noun
1.
Saint, died a.d. 968?, regent of Kiev until 955: saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.
2.
a female given name: from a Scandinavian word meaning “holy.”
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Olga
fem. proper name, from Rus., probably from Norse Helga, lit. "holy" (see health). The masc. form is Oleg.
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Olga, st. is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
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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