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BALISARDA

Date "BALISARDA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)


Specialty Definition: BALISARDA

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Literature

Balisarda or Balisardo. Rogero's sword, made by a sorceress, and capable of cutting through enchanted substances.
"With Balisarda's slightest blow
Nor helm, nor shield, nor cuirass could avail,
Nor strongly-tempered plate, nor twisted mail." Ariosto Orlando Furioso, book xxiii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: BALISARDA

Specialty definitions using "BALISARDA": Sword-makers. (references)

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Anagrams: BALISARDA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-d-i-l-r-s"

-2 letters: basilar, bridals, radials, ribalds.

-3 letters: abasia, braids, brails, brasil, bridal, dalasi, disbar, drails, labara, lairds, liards, libras, lidars, radial, ribald.

-4 letters: abris, albas, alias, arias, arils, baals, bails, balas, balds, balsa, bards, basal, basil, birds, birls, brads, braid, brail, darbs, dials, dirls, drabs, drail, dribs, laari, labia, labra, laird, lairs, lards, laris, liard.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-b-d-i-l-r-s"
 

+4 letters: ambassadorial.

 

+5 letters: subarachnoidal.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BALISARDA


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

42 41 4C 49 53 41 52 44 41

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)

01000010 01000001 01001100 01001001 01010011 01000001 01010010 01000100 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#76 &#73 &#83 &#65 &#82 &#68 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 004C 0049 0053 0041 0052 0044 0041

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

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

363546435335523835

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


  

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