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JAMAMBUXES

Specialty Definition: JAMAMBUXES

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Jamambuxes [Soldiers of the round valleys ]. Certain fanatics of Japan, who roam about and pretend to hold converse with the Devil. They scourge themselves severely, and sometimes refrain from sleeping for several days, in order to obtain the odour of sanctity. They are employed by the people for the discovery of articles stolen or lost. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: JAMAMBUXES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-j-m-m-s-u-x"

-2 letters: jambeaux.

-3 letters: jambeau.

-4 letters: amebas, jambes, mambas, summae.

-5 letters: abase, abeam, abuse, ameba, amuse, beams, beaus, beaux, bemas, exams, jambe, jambs, jubas, jubes, mabes, mamas, mamba, maxes, samba, sebum, summa.

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

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Alternative Orthography: JAMAMBUXES


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

4A 41 4D 41 4D 42 55 58 45 53

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)

01001010 01000001 01001101 01000001 01001101 01000010 01010101 01011000 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#74 &#65 &#77 &#65 &#77 &#66 &#85 &#88 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004A 0041 004D 0041 004D 0042 0055 0058 0045 0053

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

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

44354735473655583953

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