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Date "FERRAU" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
Crosswords: FERRAU |
| Specialty definitions using "FERRAU": Ferracute, Ferragus ♦ Lanfusa's Son. (references) |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 45 52 52 41 55 |
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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 01000101 01010010 01010010 01000001 01010101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F E R R A U |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)403952523555 |
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