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FUSBERTA

Date "FUSBERTA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: FUSBERTA

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Literature

Fusberta Rinaldo's sword is so called in Orlando Furioso. ( See Sword.)
"This awful sword was as dear to him as Durindana or Fusberta to their respective masters." - Sir W. Scott. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: FUSBERTA

Specialty definitions using "FUSBERTA": Sword-makers. (references)

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Anagrams: FUSBERTA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-f-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: arbutes, bursate.

-2 letters: abuser, afters, arbute, barest, baster, beauts, breast, brutes, burets, bursae, buster, faster, feuars, frusta, rebuts, strafe, tabers, tubers, urates.

-3 letters: abets, abuse, abuts, after, aster, aures, bares, barfs, baser, baste, bates, bears, beast, beats, beaus, beaut, betas, braes, brats, brute, buras, buret, bursa, burse, burst, butes, fares, fates, fears, feast.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-f-r-s-t-u"
 

+2 letters: bifurcates, breadstuff, butterfats.

 

+3 letters: beautifiers, breadfruits, breadstuffs.

 

+4 letters: afterburners, rubefacients, transfusable, transfusible.

 

+5 letters: flutterboards.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FUSBERTA


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

46 55 53 42 45 52 54 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)

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

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

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

01000110 01010101 01010011 01000010 01000101 01010010 01010100 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#85 &#83 &#66 &#69 &#82 &#84 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0055 0053 0042 0045 0052 0054 0041

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

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

4055533639525435

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2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
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