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FLORIZEL

Date "FLORIZEL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1611. (references)


Specialty Definition: FLORIZEL

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Literature

Florizel Prince of Bohemia, in love with Perdita. (Shakespeare: Winter's Tale.)
Florizel. George the Fourth, when prince, corresponded under this name with Mrs. Robinson, actress and poet, generally known as Perdita, that being the character in which she first attracted the prince's attention. Prince Florizel, in Lord Beaconsfield's novel of Endymion (1880), is meant for Napoleon III. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: FLORIZEL

English words defined with "FLORIZEL": To give out. (references)
Specialty definitions using "FLORIZEL": PolixenesWinter's Tale. (references)

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Photo Album: FLORIZEL

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Florizel and Perdita. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: FLORIZEL

"FLORIZEL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FLORIZEL" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%7133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FLORIZEL

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

florizel

2
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Anagrams: FLORIZEL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-i-l-l-o-r-z"

-1 letter: zorille.

-2 letters: filler, fozier, refill.

-3 letters: filer, fille, fillo, flier, frill, froze, iller, lifer, oiler, oriel, reoil, rifle, rille, zoril.

-4 letters: fell, file, fill, filo, fire, floe, foil, fore, friz, froe, lief, lier, life, lire, lore, orle, reif, riel, rife, rile, rill, roil, role, rolf, roll, zero, zill, zori.

-5 letters: elf, ell, fer, fez, fie.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-i-l-l-o-r-z"
 

+4 letters: formalizable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FLORIZEL


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

46 4C 4F 52 49 5A 45 4C

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)

01000110 01001100 01001111 01010010 01001001 01011010 01000101 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#76 &#79 &#82 &#73 &#90 &#69 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 004C 004F 0052 0049 005A 0045 004C

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

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

4046495243603946

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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