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COPHETUA

Date "COPHETUA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Specialty Definition: COPHETUA

Domain	Definition
Literature	Cophetua An imaginary king of Africa, of great wealth, who "disdained all womankind." One day he saw a beggar-girl from his window, and fell in love with her. He asked her name; it was Penelophon, called by Shakespeare Xenelophon (Love's Labour's Lost, iv. 1). They lived together long and happily, and at death were universally lamented. (Percy's Reliques, book ii. 6.) "King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid." Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet. ii. 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Crosswords: COPHETUA

Specialty definitions using "COPHETUA": Penelophon ♦ Zenelophon. (references)

Image Slideshow: COPHETUA

Frequency of Internet Keywords: COPHETUA

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
cophetua king	2
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Anagrams: COPHETUA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-o-p-t-u"
	-1 letter: outpace.
	-2 letters: capote, cheapo, coteau, hepcat, teacup, toecap, touche.
	-3 letters: acute, caput, chape, chapt, cheap, cheat, chute, coapt, coupe, couth, epact, epoch, haute, ouphe, patch, peach, poach, pouch, tache, taupe, teach, teuch, theca, tophe, touch.
	-4 letters: ache, atop, auto, cape, caph, capo, cate, chao, chap, chat, chop, coat, cope, cote, coup, cute, each, eath.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-o-p-t-u"
	+1 letter: outpreach.
	+2 letters: apothecium.
	+3 letters: autocephaly, champertous, neuropathic, outpreached, outpreaches, patchoulies.
	+4 letters: outpreaching, photonuclear.
	+5 letters: autocephalies, autocephalous, brachypterous, claustrophobe, hypercautious, leptocephalus, mycetophagous.
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Alternative Orthography: COPHETUA

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

43 4F 50 48 45 54 55 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)

01000011 01001111 01010000 01001000 01000101 01010100 01010101 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#80 &#72 &#69 &#84 &#85 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0050 0048 0045 0054 0055 0041

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

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

3749504239545535

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Expressions: Internet

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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