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ALGARSIFE

Date "ALGARSIFE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1633. (references)


Specialty Definition: ALGARSIFE

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Literature

Algarsife (3 syl.) Son of Cambuscan, and brother of Cambalo, who "won Theodora to wife." It was in the "Squire's Tale," by Chaucer, but was never finished. (See Canace.)
"Call him up that left half told
The story of Cambuscan bold,
Of Camball, and of Algarsife,
And who had Canace to wife."
Milton: Il Penseroso. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: ALGARSIFE

Specialty definitions using "ALGARSIFE": Canace. (references)

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Anagrams: ALGARSIFE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-g-i-l-r-s"

-1 letter: gasalier.

-2 letters: aerials, agrafes, alegars, argalis, fragile, glaires, laagers, regalia.

-3 letters: aerial, aglare, agrafe, agrias, alegar, argali, argals, argils, argles, ariels, falser, falsie, farles, ferial, ferias, filers, flairs, flares, fliers, frails, fraise, galeas, glaire, glairs, glares, graals, grails, griefs, grilse, laager, lagers, larges, lifers, ligase, ligers, realia, resail, rifles, safari, sagier, sailer, serail.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-f-g-i-l-r-s"
 

+2 letters: flagrancies.

 

+3 letters: farthingales.

 

+4 letters: deflagrations, gallimaufries.

 

+5 letters: flabbergasting.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ALGARSIFE


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

41 4C 47 41 52 53 49 46 45

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)

01000001 01001100 01000111 01000001 01010010 01010011 01001001 01000110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004C 0047 0041 0052 0053 0049 0046 0045

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

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

354641355253434039

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