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Literature | Foscari (Francis). Doge of Venice. He occupied the office for thirty-five years, added Brescia, Bergamo, Crema, and Ravenna to the Republic, greatly improved the city, and raised Venice to the pinnacle of its glory. Of his four sons only one, named Jacopo, survived: he was thrice tortured. Before his final banishment, the old doge, then eighty-four years of age, hobbled on crutches to the gaol where his son was confined, but would not mitigate the sentence of "The Ten." His son, being banished to Candia, died, and Francis was deposed. As he descended the Giant Staircase he heard the bell toll for the election of his successor, and dropped down dead. (Byron; The Two Foscari.) Jacopo Foscari. Denounced by the Council of Ten for taking bribes of foreign powers. He was tried before his own father, confessed his guilt, and was banished. During his banishment a Venetian senator was murdered, and Jacopo, being suspected of complicity in the crime, was again tortured and banished. He returned to Venice, was once more brought before the council, subjected to torture, and banished to Candia, where in a few days he died. "Nothing can sympathise with Foscari - Not e'en a Foscari." Byron: The Two Foscari. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Date "FOSCARI" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Crosswords: FOSCARI |
| Specialty definitions using "FOSCARI": Loredano ♦ Venice Glass. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Sangue a Ca' Foscari (1946) I Due Foscari (1942) Der Ring der Giuditta Foscari (1917) I Due Foscari (1988) | |
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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. |
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foscari villa | 4 |
ca foscari | 3 |
ca foscari locanda | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-i-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: fiasco, scoria. | |
-2 letters: coifs, coirs, coria, fairs, farci, faros, fiars, orcas, scarf, sofar. | |
-3 letters: airs, arco, arcs, arfs, asci, cars, ciao, coif, coir, corf, cors, cris, fair, faro, fiar, fico, firs, fisc, foci, fora, oafs, oars, ocas, orca, orcs, osar, rias, rifs, rocs, sari, scar, soar, sofa, sora, sori. | |
-4 letters: air, ais, arc, arf. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-i-o-r-s" | |
+2 letters: factories, fractions, fractious, trifocals. | |
+3 letters: factorials, factorizes, factorship, falconries, fascinator, fornicates, fortalices, franchisor, francolins, fricandoes, furcations, infrasonic, picofarads. | |
+4 letters: cafetoriums, calciferols, calciferous, clofibrates, cofavorites, confirmands, confiscator, fabricators, factorships, farinaceous, fascinators, forecaddies, forecasting, formalistic, formicaries, fornicators, fractiously, franchisors, infarctions, informatics, infractions, lactiferous, macrofossil, microfarads, microfaunas, microfloras, officiaries, refractions, scalariform, vociferates. | |
+5 letters: bifurcations, californiums, cauliflowers, confiscators, confiscatory, diffractions, fabrications, facilitators, felicitators, fibroblastic, fibrosarcoma, forbiddances, forensically, fornications, fractionates, infomercials, macrofossils, overclassify, pacificators, parfocalizes, profligacies, purificators, rarefactions, refractories, reifications, satisfactory, transfection, vociferators. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 4F 53 43 41 52 49 |
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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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| Braille (1829, 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)01000110 01001111 01010011 01000011 01000001 01010010 01001001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F O S C A R I |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 004F 0053 0043 0041 0052 0049 |
| 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)40495337355243 |
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