BARTHOLOMEW FAIR

  

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BARTHOLOMEW FAIR

Specialty Definition: BARTHOLOMEW FAIR

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Literature

Bartholomew Fair Held in West Smithfield (1133--1855) on St. Bartholomew's Day.
A Bartholomew doll. A tawdry, overdressed woman; like a flashy, bespangled doll offered for sale at Bartholomew Fair.
Bartholomew pig. A very fat person. At Bartholomew Fair one of the chief attractions used to be a pig, roasted whole, and sold piping hot. Falstaff calls himself,
"A little tidy Bartholomew boar-pig." - 2 Henry IV. ii. 4. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: BARTHOLOMEW FAIR

Specialty definitions using "BARTHOLOMEW FAIR": BARTHOLOMEW BABYO'verdo. (references)

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Commercial Usage: BARTHOLOMEW FAIR

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Books

  • The Alchemist and Other Plays: Volpone, or the Fox: Epicene, or the Silent Woman: The Alchemist: Bartholomew Fair (Worlds Classics) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BARTHOLOMEW FAIR

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

bartholomew fair

4
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Anagrams: BARTHOLOMEW FAIR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-f-h-i-l-m-o-o-r-r-t-w"

-4 letters: ameliorator.

-5 letters: fathomable, formalwear, meliorator, wolframite.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BARTHOLOMEW FAIR


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

42 41 52 54 48 4F 4C 4F 4D 45 57      46 41 49 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000001 01010010 01010100 01001000 01001111 01001100 01001111 01001101 01000101 01010111 00100000 01000110 01000001 01001001 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#82 &#84 &#72 &#79 &#76 &#79 &#77 &#69 &#87 &#32 &#70 &#65 &#73 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0052 0054 0048 004F 004C 004F 004D 0045 0057      0046 0041 0049 0052

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

3635525442494649473957240354352

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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