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GARGAMELLE

Specialty Definition: GARGAMELLE

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Gargamelle (3 syl., g hard) was the wife of Grangousier, and daughter of the king of the Parpaillons (butterflies). On the day that she gave birth to Gargantua she ate sixteen quarters, two bushels, three pecks, and a pipkin of dirt, the mere remains left in the tripe which she had for supper; for, as the proverb says -
"Scrape tripe as clean as e'er you can,
A tithe of filth will still remain."
Gargamelle. Said to be meant for Anne of Brittany. She was the mother of Gargantua, in the satirical romance of Gargantua and Pantagruel', by Rabelais. Motteux, who makes "Pantagruel" to be Anthony de Bourbon, and "Gargantua" to be Henri d'Albret, says "Gargamelle" is designed for Catherine de Foix, Queen of Navarre. (Rabelais, i. 4.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: GARGAMELLE

Specialty definitions using "GARGAMELLE": Grangousier. (references)

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Anagrams: GARGAMELLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-g-g-l-l-m-r"

-2 letters: amarelle.

-3 letters: alleger, gleamer.

-4 letters: aglare, agleam, alegar, allege, galeae, galere, garage, gargle, laager, lagger, malgre, mallee, meager, meagre, raggee, raggle, regale, reggae.

-5 letters: agger, aglee, agree, alarm, algae, algal, allee, ameer, areae, areal, argal, argle, eager, eagle, eagre, eggar, egger, gager, galea, gamer, glare, gleam, graal, grama, lager, lamer, laree, large, legal, leger.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GARGAMELLE


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

47 41 52 47 41 4D 45 4C 4C 45

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)

01000111 01000001 01010010 01000111 01000001 01001101 01000101 01001100 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#65 &#82 &#71 &#65 &#77 &#69 &#76 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0041 0052 0047 0041 004D 0045 004C 004C 0045

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

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

41355241354739464639

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