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GRECIAN STAIRS

Specialty Definition: GRECIAN STAIRS

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Grecian Stairs A corruption of greesing stairs. Greesings (steps) still survives in the architectural word grees, and in the compound word de-grees. There is still on the hill at Lincoln a flight of stone steps called "Grecian stairs. "
"Paul stood on the greezen [i.e. stairs]." -Wicliffe: Acts xxi. 40. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: GRECIAN STAIRS

Specialty definitions using "GRECIAN STAIRS": Public-house Signs. (references)

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Anagrams: GRECIAN STAIRS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-g-i-i-n-r-r-s-s-t"

-3 letters: acierating, anticaries, ascertains, cinerarias, geriatrics, sagacities, sanitaries, sectarians, tarriances.

-4 letters: arginases, arresting, ascertain, asserting, astringes, canisters, caressing, caritases, carriages, caseating, cesarians, cineraria, craniates, cratering, crestings, estancias, ganisters, geriatric, grainiest, granaries, intarsias, irrigates, recasting, recrating, reraising, resisting, restrains, restrings, retracing, sacristan, scarriest, scenarist, seatrains, sectarian, seriating, serrating, sistering, staircase, strainers, strangers, stringers, stringier.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GRECIAN STAIRS


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

47 52 45 43 49 41 4E      53 54 41 49 52 53

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

    

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

01000111 01010010 01000101 01000011 01001001 01000001 01001110 00100000 01010011 01010100 01000001 01001001 01010010 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#82 &#69 &#67 &#73 &#65 &#78 &#32 &#83 &#84 &#65 &#73 &#82 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0052 0045 0043 0049 0041 004E      0053 0054 0041 0049 0052 0053

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

415239374335482535435435253

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