/ˈtæləˌrændˈpɛrɪˌgɔr; French talɛrɑ̃peɪriˈgɔr/Show Spelled[tal-uh-rand-per-i-gawr; French ta-le-rahn-pey-ree-gawr]Show IPA
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Charles Mau·rice de /ʃarl moʊˈris də/Show Spelled[sharl moh-rees duh]Show IPA, Prince de Bé·né·vent /də beɪneɪˈvɑ̃/Show Spelled[duh bey-ney-vahn]Show IPA, 1754–1838, French statesman.
Talleyrand-Périgord (ˈtælɪˌrændˈpɛrɪɡɔː, French talɛrɑ̃periɡɔr)
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Charles Maurice (ʃarl mɔris). 1754--1838, French statesman; foreign minister (1797--1807; 1814--15). He secretly negotiated with the Allies against Napoleon I from 1808 and was France's representative at the Congress of Vienna (1815)
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the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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.