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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Boucan Donner un boucan. To give a dance. Boucan or Bocan was a musician and dancing master in the middle of the seventeenth century. He was alive in 1645. "Thibaut se dit estre Mercure, Et Porgueilleux Colin nous jure Qu'il est aussi bien Apollon Que Boccan est bon violon." Sieur de St. Amant (1661). "Les musiciens qui jouent au ballet du roi sont appelés `disciples de Bocan.' "- Histoire Comique de Francion (1635). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: BOUCAN |
| Specialty definitions using "BOUCAN": Buccaneer'. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BOUCAN" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (din, hullabaloo, noise, racket, row, rumpus, shindy, wallop). |
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Human Rights | Haiti | On July 11, local residents of the villages of Sarasin and Boucan Carre, near the town of Mirebalais, killed two suspected criminals and burned their bodies. (references) |
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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 |
boucan brother | 4 |
boucan d enfer | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-n-o-u" | |
-1 letter: bacon, banco, bunco. | |
-2 letters: unco. | |
-3 letters: abo, ban, boa, bun, cab, can, cob, con, cub, nab, nob, nub, oca. | |
-4 letters: ab, an, ba, bo, na, no, nu, on, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-n-o-u" | |
+2 letters: buoyance, buoyancy. | |
+3 letters: abduction, binocular, buoyances, connubial, countable, countably, incubator, obscurant, subdeacon. | |
+4 letters: abductions, background, binoculars, buccinator, buoyancies, consumable, incubation, incubators, incubatory, knockabout, obscurants, outbalance, punchboard, scrubwoman, subdeacons, suboceanic, unsociable, unsociably. | |
+5 letters: accountable, accountably, backcountry, backgrounds, bifurcation, binocularly, bivouacking, buccinators, carburetion, concubinage, confabulate, connubially, construable, consumables, conurbation, counterbade, incubations, knockabouts, lubrication, lucubration, multicarbon, obfuscating, obfuscation, obscurantic, obscuration, outbalanced, outbalances, publication, punchboards, rubrication, subcontract, subcontrary, subtraction, uncombative, uncountable, uncrossable, unshockable, untouchable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4F 55 43 41 4E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... --- ..- -.-. .- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001111 01010101 01000011 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B O U C A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004F 0055 0043 0041 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)364955373548 |
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