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Date "ASTOLPHO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Astolpho (in Orlando Furioso). An English duke (son of Otho), who joined Charlemagne against the Saracens. He was carried on the back of a whale to Alcina's isle; but when Alcina tired of him, she turned him into a myrtle. He was disenchanted by Melissa. Astolpho descended into the infernal regions, and his flight to the moon (book xviii.) is one of the best parts of the whole poem. (See Inferno.) It came upon them like a blast from Astolpho's horn - i.e. it produced a panic. Logistilla gave Astolpho a magic horn, and whatever man or beast heard its blast was seized with panic, and became an easy captive. (Orlando Furioso, book viii.) Like Astolpho's book, it told you everything. The same fairy gave Astolpho a book, which would not only direct him aright in his journeys, but would tell him anything he desired to know. (Ariosto Orlando Furioso, book viii.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: ASTOLPHO |
| Specialty definitions using "ASTOLPHO": Andronica ♦ Griffen Horse ♦ Logistilla ♦ Oril'o. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-l-o-o-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: hooplas. | |
-2 letters: hoopla, lotahs, pathos, photos, postal, potash, saloop, tholos. | |
-3 letters: altho, altos, halos, halts, holts, hoops, hoots, hosta, laths, loath, loops, loots, lotah, lotas, lotos, oaths, opahs, opals, paths, photo, phots, plash, plats, plots, polos, poohs, pools, shalt, shoal, shoat, shool, shoot, sloop, sloth, sooth, sotol, splat, spool, staph, stool, stoop, tolas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-l-o-o-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: isophotal. | |
+2 letters: photoflash, photoplays. | |
+3 letters: chloroplast, chromoplast, homoplastic, nonhospital, pathologies, pathologist, photomurals, postholiday, trophoblast. | |
+4 letters: anthophilous, chloroplasts, chromoplasts, exophthalmos, graphologist, haptoglobins, holophrastic, lymphomatous, nonhospitals, pathologists, photoflashes, posthospital, theosophical, trophoblasts. | |
+5 letters: autocephalous, chloroplastic, claustrophobe, graphologists, lymphomatoses, lymphomatosis, metallophones, phosphorylate, photovoltaics, phraseologist, postholocaust, pyrocatechols, staphylococci, trophoblastic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 53 54 4F 4C 50 48 4F |
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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)01000001 01010011 01010100 01001111 01001100 01010000 01001000 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A S T O L P H O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0053 0054 004F 004C 0050 0048 004F |
| 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)3553544946504249 |
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