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YVETOT

Date "YVETOT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)


Specialty Definition: YVETOT

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Literature

Yvetot (pron. Eve-tó). The King of Yvetot. Yvetot is a town in Normandy, and the king referred to is the lord of the town, called roi d'Yvetot in old chronicles. The tradition is that Clotaire, son of Clovis, having slain Gaulthier, lord of Yvetot, before the high altar of Soissons, made atonement by conferring the title of king on the heirs of the murdered man.
"Il était un roi d'Yvetot
Peu connu dans l'histoire;
Se levant tard, se couchant tôt,
Dormant fort bien sans gloire,
Et couronne par Jeanneton
D'un simple bonnet de coton,
Dit-on.
Oh! oh! oh! oh! ah! ah! ah! ah!
Quel bon petit roi c'éctait, là! là! là!"
Beranger: Roi d'Yvetot (1813).
A king there was, "roi d'Yvetot" clept,
But little known in story;
Went soon to bed, till daylight slept,
And soundly without glory
His royal brow in cotton cap
Would Janet, when he took his nap,
Enwrap.
Ah! ah! ah! ah! ho! ho! ho! ho!
A famous king this "roi d'Yvetot."
E. C. D. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: YVETOT

Specialty definitions using "YVETOT": King of Yvetot. (references)

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Use in Literature: YVETOT

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Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

They would exchange Caesar for Prusias, and Napoleon for the king of Yvetot.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: YVETOT

"YVETOT" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "YVETOT" is used about 2 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
Lexical Verb (base form)100%2245,945

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: YVETOT

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

yvetot

5
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Anagrams: YVETOT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-o-t-t-v-y"

-2 letters: tote, veto, vote, yett.

-3 letters: tet, toe, tot, toy, tye, vet, voe, yet.

-4 letters: et, oe, oy, to, ye, yo.

 Words containing the letters "e-o-t-t-v-y"
 

+3 letters: emotivity.

 

+4 letters: optatively, rotatively, vitrectomy.

 

+5 letters: antipoverty, hortatively, objectivity, ventilatory.

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

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Alternative Orthography: YVETOT


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

59 56 45 54 4F 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)

01011001 01010110 01000101 01010100 01001111 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#89 &#86 &#69 &#84 &#79 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0059 0056 0045 0054 004F 0054

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

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

595639544954

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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