SHALOTT

  

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SHALOTT

Date "SHALOTT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1858. (references)

"SHALOTT" is a common misspelling or typo for: shallot.


Specialty Definition: SHALOTT

DomainDefinition

Literature

Shalott (Lady of). A poem by Tennyson, the tale of which is similar to that of Elaine the "fair maid of Astolat" (q.v.). Part I. describes the island of Shalott, and tells us that the lady passed her life so secluded there that only the farm-labourers knew her. Part II. tells us that the lady passed her time in weaving a magic web, and that a curse would light on her if she looked down the river towards Camelot. Part III. describes how Sir Lancelot, in all his bravery, rode to Camelot, and the lady looked at him as he rode along. Part IV. says that the lady entered a boat, having first written her name on the prow, and floated down the river to Camelot, but died on the way. When the boat reached Camelot, Sir Lancelot, with all the inmates of the palace, came to look at it. They read the name on the prow, and Sir Lancelot exclaimed, "She has a lovely face, and may God have mercy on the lady of Shalott!" Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Modern Usage: SHALOTT

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Lady of Shalott (1915)

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

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Usage Frequency: SHALOTT

"SHALOTT" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SHALOTT" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%6143,867

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SHALOTT

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

the lady of shalott

97

the lady of shalott painting

5

shalott

4

lady shalott tennyson

3

the lady of shalott alfred lord tennyson

3

lady shalott waterhouse

3

lady shalott summary

3

lady poem shalott

2

lady picture shalott

2

lady mp3 shalott

2
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Anagrams: SHALOTT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-h-l-o-s-t-t"

-1 letter: lotahs, totals.

-2 letters: altho, altos, halos, halts, holts, hosta, laths, loath, lotah, lotas, oaths, shalt, shoal, shoat, shott, sloth, stoat, toast, tolas, total.

-3 letters: also, alto, alts, halo, halt, hast, hats, hols, holt, host, hots, lash, last, lath, lats, lost, lota, loth, lots, oast, oath, oats, salt, shat, shot, slat, slot, sola, soth.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-l-o-s-t-t"
 

+2 letters: heliostat, stalworth, statolith.

 

+3 letters: batholiths, betrothals, charlottes, gastrolith, heliostats, larghettos, potlatches, stalworths, statoliths, talkathons, triathlons, ultrashort.

 

+4 letters: altogethers, anthologist, cholestatic, ethambutols, gastroliths, hospitality, methylators, nonathletes, pathologist, pentathlons, stadtholder, tablecloths, thiopentals, thiosulfate, trophoblast, ultrasmooth.

 

+5 letters: anthologists, catholicates, erythroblast, glutathiones, hematologist, methylations, pathologists, posthospital, snaggletooth, stadtholders, stenothermal, thalassocrat, thallophytes, thermostable, thiosulfates, trophoblasts.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SHALOTT


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

53 48 41 4C 4F 54 54

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    ....    .-    .-..    ---    -    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010011 01001000 01000001 01001100 01001111 01010100 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#72 &#65 &#76 &#79 &#84 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0048 0041 004C 004F 0054 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

53423546495454

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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