sous marques

sou mar·qué

[soo mahr-key or for 2, -kee; French soo-mar-key]
noun, plural sous mar·qués [soo mahr-key or for 2, -kee; French soo mar-key] .
1.
a billon coin of France, issued in the 18th century for circulation in the colonies.
2.
something that has little or no value.
Also, sou mar·kee [soo mahr-kee] .


Origin:
1820–30; < French: marked sou

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sou marqué (ˈsuː mɑːˈkeɪ, French su marke) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n , pl sous marqués
a French copper coin of the 18th century
 
[French, literally: a marked sou]

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Sous marques 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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