FERRAU

  

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FERRAU

Date "FERRAU" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)


Specialty Definition: FERRAU

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Literature

Ferrau (in Orlando Furioso). Ferraute, Ferracute, or Ferragus, a Saracen, son of Lanfusa. He dropped his helmet in the river, and vowed he would never wear another till he had won that worn by Orlando. Orlando slew him with a wound in the navel, his only vulnerable part. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: FERRAU

Specialty definitions using "FERRAU": Ferracute, FerragusLanfusa's Son. (references)

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Anagrams: FERRAU

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-r-r-u"

-1 letter: farer, feuar, urare.

-2 letters: fare, fear, frae, rare, rear, ruer, urea.

-3 letters: are, arf, ear, eau, era, err, far, fer, feu, fur, ref, rue.

-4 letters: ae, ar, ef, er, fa, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-r-r-u"
 

+1 letter: farceur.

 

+2 letters: argufier, farceurs, favourer, fracture, funerary, furcraea, surfacer, unfairer.

 

+3 letters: argufiers, barrelful, carrefour, defrauder, drawerful, favourers, fireguard, fractured, fractures, frustrate, furbearer, furcraeas, prayerful, regardful, resurface, superfarm, surfacers.

 

+4 letters: auriferous, barrelfuls, barrelsful, breadfruit, carefuller, carrefours, defrauders, drawerfuls, fearfuller, fireguards, fourragere, foursquare, frustrated, frustrates, fundraiser, furbearers, grapefruit, resurfaced, resurfacer, resurfaces, superfarms, trifurcate.

 

+5 letters: afterburner, breadfruits, forequarter, formularies, formularize, fourrageres, frankfurter, fundraisers, furtherance, gracefuller, grapefruits, gratefuller, irrefutable, irrefutably, overcareful, prayerfully, prefectural, reformulate, regardfully, reproachful, resurfacers, resurfacing, surfboarded, surfboarder, transfigure, trifurcated, trifurcates.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FERRAU


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

46 45 52 52 41 55

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)

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

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

01000110 01000101 01010010 01010010 01000001 01010101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#69 &#82 &#82 &#65 &#85

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0045 0052 0052 0041 0055

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

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

403952523555

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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