GREGARINES

Domain	Definition
Literature	Gregarines (3 syl.). In 1867 the women of Europe and America, from the thrones to the maid-servants, adopted the fashion of wearing a pad made of false hair behind their head, utterly destroying its natural proportions. The microscope showed that the hair employed for these "uglies" abounded in a pediculous insect called a gregarine (or little herding animal), from the Latin grex (a herd). The nests on the filaments of hair resemble those of spiders and silkworms, and the "object" used to form one of the exhibits in microscopical soirées. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings: GREGARINES

Anagrams: GREGARINES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-g-i-n-r-r-s"
	-1 letter: gregarine, regainers, regearing, sniggerer.
	-2 letters: agreeing, anergies, earrings, engagers, gearings, gesneria, grainers, grangers, greasier, greasing, regainer, resigner, snaggier.
	-3 letters: ageings, angrier, earings, earners, earring, engager, engages, enrages, erasing, gainers, gangers, garners, garring, gearing, gingers, grainer, granger, granges, greaser, greeing, greiges, greisen, naggers, naggier, raggees, raggies, rangers, rangier, reagins, rearing, reearns, regains, regears, reggaes.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-g-i-n-r-r-s"
	+1 letter: glengarries.
	+2 letters: gingerbreads.
	+3 letters: resegregating, resegregation.
	+4 letters: gregariousness, reaggregations, resegregations, stereographing, tergiversating.
	+5 letters: phrasemongering.
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Alternative Orthography: GREGARINES

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

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)

HTML Code (1990) (references)

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: GREGARINES

Misspellings
	"GREGARINES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gergasites, gregarians, gregorians. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).