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FARTHINGALO

Specialty Definition: FARTHINGALO

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Farthingalo (3 syl.). A sort of crinoline petticoat. The word means a "guard for modesty." (French, vertugarde, corrupted into verdingade, and then into farthingale.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: FARTHINGALO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-f-g-h-i-l-n-o-r-t"

-2 letters: inhalator.

-3 letters: fanlight, farthing, flagrant, flatiron, floating, frothing, halation, horntail, inflator, loathing, longhair, notarial, rational, trigonal.

-4 letters: afghani, alation, alright, althorn, antilog, fantail, farinha, fatling, flaring, foaling, frontal, gharial, gnathal, granita, granola, hafting, haloing, halting, ingraft, inthral, lathing, loafing, lofting, logania, orating, otalgia, rafting, rolfing, tailfan, tholing.

-5 letters: aahing, afghan, afloat, agnail, agonal, alight.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FARTHINGALO


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

46 41 52 54 48 49 4E 47 41 4C 4F

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)

01000110 01000001 01010010 01010100 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111 01000001 01001100 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#65 &#82 &#84 &#72 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#65 &#76 &#79

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0041 0052 0054 0048 0049 004E 0047 0041 004C 004F

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

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

4035525442434841354649

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