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Definition: Betsy Ross |
Betsy RossNoun1. American seamstress said to have made the first American flag at the request of George Washington (1752-1836). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Betsy RossSynonyms: Betsy Griscom Ross (n), Ross (n). (additional references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Flag: A Story Inspired by the Tradition of Betsy Ross (1927) Betsy Ross (1917) | |
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 | The new lilac cultivar named Betsy Ross, released by Margaret Pooler of the U.S. National Arboretum, has fragrant white flowers and tolerates powdery mildew. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Margaret Pooler.. |  | Betsy Ross House, Philadelphia.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Betsy Ross House, Philadelphia, Pa.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | What Betsy Ross did as an act of freedom is now being done behind bars by women in prison : 1976 : what are we celebrating?.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
betsy ross | 399 |
betsy ross flag | 61 |
betsy ross biography | 7 |
american betsy ross flag | 6 |
betsy ross hotel | 4 |
betsy ross flag girl | 3 |
betsy ross spinet | 2 |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Ommatophoca rossi, Rhodostethia rosea, Rossia macrosoma. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-o-r-s-s-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: oysters, sorbets, storeys, strobes, tossers. | |
-3 letters: besots, bosses, broses, obsess, oyster, rosets, sobers, sorbet, sorest, stores, storey, stress, strobe, stroys, syboes, torses, tosser, tosses, toyers, tressy, tsores. | |
-4 letters: besot, bests, bores, borts, borty, bossy, brose, brosy, byres, bytes, obeys, oyers, rests, robes, roses, roset, rotes, ryots, sober, sorbs, sores, sorts, stobs, store, story. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-o-r-s-s-s-t-y" | |
+4 letters: trolleybusses. | |
+5 letters: superlobbyists. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 74 73 79 52 6F 73 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01110100 01110011 01111001 00100000 01010010 01101111 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e t s y   R o s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0074 0073 0079 0052 006F 0073 0073 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3671868591252818585 |
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