pappenheimer

[pap-uhn-hahy-mer, pah-puhn-]

pap·pen·hei·mer

[pap-uhn-hahy-mer, pah-puhn-]
noun
a heavy rapier of the 17th century, having a swept guard with two perforated plates.
Also called Walloon sword.


Origin:
named after Gottfried Heinrich, Graf zu Pappenheim (1594–1632), German leader in the Thirty Years' War; see -er1
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Pappenheimer is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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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