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CAMAIEU

Definitions: CAMAIEU

CAMAIEU

Noun

1. Painting in shades of one color; monochrome.

2. A cameo.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Camaieu \Ca*ma"ieu\, noun. [French expression; of unknown origin. Compare to Cameo.]. (Websters 1913)

Commercial Usage: CAMAIEU

DomainTitle

Books

  • Grisaille als Metapher : zum Entstehen der Peinture en Camaieu im frühen 14. Jahrhundert (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CAMAIEU

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

camaieu

15

camaieu enfants

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: CAMAIEU

Language Translations for "CAMAIEU"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

ÐºÐ°Ð¼ÐµÑ (anaglyph, cameo). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amaieucay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

camafeu (cameo, grimalkin). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ÐºÐ°Ð¼ÐµÑ (cameo). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CAMAIEU

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-m-u"

-1 letter: aecium.

-2 letters: aecia, amice, umiac.

-3 letters: acme, amia, amie, came, emic, mace, mica, mice.

-4 letters: ace, aim, ama, ami, amu, cam, cue, cum, eau, ecu, emu, ice, mac, mae.

-5 letters: aa, ae, ai, am, em, ma, me, mi, mu, um.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-m-u"
 

+2 letters: acuminate.

 

+3 letters: animalcule, calumniate, immaculate, naumachiae, naumachies, oceanarium, paramecium, unacademic, unicameral.

 

+4 letters: animalcules, calumniated, calumniates, matriculate, microfaunae, oceanariums, parameciums, semiaquatic.

 

+5 letters: accumulative, alphanumeric, diatomaceous, emasculating, emasculation, extramusical, immaculacies, immaculately, matriculated, matriculates, miscalculate, unacclimated, unicamerally.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CAMAIEU


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

43 41 4D 41 49 45 55

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)

-.-.    .-    --    .-    ..    .    ..-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000011 01000001 01001101 01000001 01001001 01000101 01010101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#77 &#65 &#73 &#69 &#85

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 004D 0041 0049 0045 0055

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

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

37354735433955

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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