SECRET DE POLICHINELLE

  

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SECRET DE POLICHINELLE

Specialty Definition: SECRET DE POLICHINELLE

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Literature

Secret de Polichinelle (Le). No secret at all. A secret known to all the world; old news. We have also "Hawker's News," "Piper's News." The secrets of Polichinelle are "stage whispers" told to all the audience.
"Entre nous, c'est qu'on appelle
Le secret de polichinelle."
La Mascotte ii. 12. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: SECRET DE POLICHINELLE

Specialty definitions using "SECRET DE POLICHINELLE": Hawker's NewsOld NewsPiper's News. (references)
Non-English Usage: "SECRET DE POLICHINELLE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (open secret).

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Modern Usage: SECRET DE POLICHINELLE

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Movie/TV Titles

Le Secret de Polichinelle (1936)

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

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Alternative Orthography: SECRET DE POLICHINELLE


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

53 45 43 52 45 54      44 45      50 4F 4C 49 43 48 49 4E 45 4C 4C 45

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

        

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

01010011 01000101 01000011 01010010 01000101 01010100 00100000 01000100 01000101 00100000 01010000 01001111 01001100 01001001 01000011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000101 01001100 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#69 &#67 &#82 &#69 &#84 &#32 &#68 &#69 &#32 &#80 &#79 &#76 &#73 &#67 &#72 &#73 &#78 &#69 &#76 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0045 0043 0052 0045 0054      0044 0045      0050 004F 004C 0049 0043 0048 0049 004E 0045 004C 004C 0045

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

533937523954238392504946433742434839464639

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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