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BEAUX ESPRITS

Specialty Definition: BEAUX ESPRITS

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Literature

Beaux Esprits (French). Men of wit or genius (singular number, Un bel esprit, a wit, a genius). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Historic Usage: BEAUX ESPRITS

AuthorDateQuotation

Communist Manifesto

1848

German philosophers, would-be philosophers, and beaux esprits, eagerly seized on this literature, only forgetting, that when these writings immigrated from France into Germany, French social conditions had not immigrated along with them. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: BEAUX ESPRITS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-i-p-r-s-s-t-u-x"

-2 letters: pasteurise, supertaxes.

-3 letters: epistaxes, estuaries, preexists, puberties, sextarius, superbest.

-4 letters: abstruse, airbuses, baptises, bauxites, beasties, beauties, bustiers, epitases, eutaxies, expiates, exurbias, parietes, pastries, pastures, piasters, piastres, praxises, preexist, pursiest, raspiest, respites, seriates, suberise, subparts, superset, supersex, supertax, sureties, surtaxes, traipses, trapeses, upraises, upstairs, upstares.

-5 letters: abusers, aeriest, aperies, arbutes, aruspex, asperse, aspires, aurists, austere.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BEAUX ESPRITS


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

42 45 41 55 58      45 53 50 52 49 54 53

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

    

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

01000010 01000101 01000001 01010101 01011000 00100000 01000101 01010011 01010000 01010010 01001001 01010100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#69 &#65 &#85 &#88 &#32 &#69 &#83 &#80 &#82 &#73 &#84 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0045 0041 0055 0058      0045 0053 0050 0052 0049 0054 0053

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

3639355558239535052435453

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Historic
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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