parador

 [par-uh-dawr; Sp. pah-rah-thawr]  

pa·ra·dor

   [par-uh-dawr; Sp. pah-rah-thawr]
noun, plural pa·ra·dors, Spanish pa·ra·do·res  [-thaw-res] .
a government-sponsored inn in Spain, usually in a scenic or historic area, that offers lodging and meals at reasonable prices.
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1835–45; < Spanish: wayside inn, hostelry, equivalent to par(ar) to stop (see parade) + -ador -ator
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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.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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parador (ˈpærədɔː, Spanish ˈparaðor)
 
—n , pl -dors, -dores
a state-run hotel in Spain
 
[Spanish]

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