prevost d'exiles

Pré·vost d'Ex·iles

[prey-voh deg-zeel]
noun
An·toine Fran·çois [ahn-twan frahn-swa] , ( "Abbé Prévost" ) 1697–1763, French novelist.
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Prévost d'Exiles (French prevo dɛɡzil) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
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Antoine François (ɑ̃twan frɑ̃swa), known as Abbé Prévost. 1697--1763, French novelist, noted for his romance Manon Lescaut (1731), which served as the basis for operas by Puccini and Massenet

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Prevost d'exiles is always a great word to know.
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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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