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GARAGANTUA

Specialty Definition: GARAGANTUA

Domain	Definition
Literature	Garagantua (g hard). The giant that swallowed five pilgrims with their staves and all in a salad. From a book entitled The History of Garagantua, 1594. Laneham, however, mentions the book of Garagantua in 1575. The giant in Rabelais is called Gargantua (q.v.). "You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first [before I can utter so long a word]; `tis a word too great for any mouth of this age's size." - Shakespeare: As You Like It, iii. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Crosswords: GARAGANTUA

Specialty definitions using "GARAGANTUA": Giants. (references)

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Anagrams: GARAGANTUA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-g-g-n-r-t-u"
	-4 letters: ragtag, tagrag.
	-5 letters: antra, gaunt, grana, grant, grunt, ratan, ruana.
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Alternative Orthography: GARAGANTUA

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

47 41 52 41 47 41 4E 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)

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

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

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

01000111 01000001 01010010 01000001 01000111 01000001 01001110 01010100 01010101 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#65 &#82 &#65 &#71 &#65 &#78 &#84 &#85 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0041 0052 0041 0047 0041 004E 0054 0055 0041

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

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

41355235413548545535

INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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