ROUGH MUSIC

  

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ROUGH MUSIC

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Rough Music called in Somersetshire skimmity-riding, and by the Basques toberac. A ceremony which takes place after sunset, when the performers, to show their indignation against some man or woman who has outraged propriety, assemble before the house, and make an appalling din with bells, horns, tin pans, and other noisy instruments. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

ROUGH MUSIC. Saucepans, frying-paps, poker and tongs, marrow-bones and cleavers, bulls horns, &c. beaten upon and sounded in ludicrous processions. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: ROUGH MUSIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-g-h-i-m-o-r-s-u-u"

-3 letters: chrisom, curious, curiums, grumous, humours, roguish, sorghum.

-4 letters: chirms, chiros, choirs, chorus, chrism, corgis, corium, coughs, curios, curium, grouch, guiros, houris, humors, humour, ichors, micros, mohurs, mucors, mucous, mucros, ogrish, ogrism, orchis, rimous, roughs, rugous, smirch.

-5 letters: chirm, chiro, choir, chugs, chums, coirs, corgi, corms, cough, crush, cuish, curio, giros, girsh, gismo, guiro.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ROUGH MUSIC


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 4F 55 47 48      4D 55 53 49 43

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01001111 01010101 01000111 01001000 00100000 01001101 01010101 01010011 01001001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#79 &#85 &#71 &#72 &#32 &#77 &#85 &#83 &#73 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 004F 0055 0047 0048      004D 0055 0053 0049 0043

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

524955414224755534337

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INDEX

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2. Orthography
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