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 children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

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vervain (ˈvɜːveɪn)

—n
	any of several verbenaceous plants of the genus Verbena, having square stems and long slender spikes of purple, blue, or white flowers

[C14: from Old French verveine, from Latin verbēna sacred bough; see verbena]

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vervain

herbaceous plant, much valued medicinally in Middle Ages, late 14c., from O.Fr. verveine (13c.), from L. verbena (see verbena).

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