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FLAG'S DOWN

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Flag's Down (The). Indicative of distress. When the face is pale the "flag is down." Alluding to the ancient custom of taking down the flag of theatres during Lent, when the theatres were closed.
"'Tis Lent in your cheeks, the flag's down." -
Dodsley's Old Plays (vol v.p. 314, article, "Mad World."). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: FLAG'S DOWN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-d-f-g-l-n-o-s-w"

-3 letters: flagons.

-4 letters: dongas, flagon, flongs, ganofs, glands, gonads, gowans, logans, sawlog, slogan, soland, soldan, wagons, woalds.

-5 letters: adown, aglow, agons, along, awols, dagos, dangs, dawns, donas, donga, dongs, downs, fados, fangs, fanos, fawns, flags, flans, flaws, flogs, flong, flown, flows, foals, folds, fonds, fowls, ganof, gaols, glads, gland, glans, glows, gnaws, goads, goals.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FLAG'S DOWN


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

46 4C 41 47 27 53      44 4F 57 4E

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

    

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

01000110 01001100 01000001 01000111 00100111 01010011 00100000 01000100 01001111 01010111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#76 &#65 &#71 &#39 &#83 &#32 &#68 &#79 &#87 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 004C 0041 0047 0027 0053      0044 004F 0057 004E

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

40463541953238495748

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