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JORDELOO

Specialty Definition: JORDELOO

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Jordeloo (3 syl.). Notice given to passengers when dirty water was thrown from chamber windows into the street. Either "Gare de l'eau," or else "Jorda' lo!" the mutula being usually called the "Jordan."
"At ten o'clock at night the whole cargo is flung out of a back window that looks into some street or lane, and the maid calls `Gardy loo" to the passengers." - Smollett: Humphrey Clinker.
"The lass had made the Gardy loo out of the wrong window." - Sir W. Scott: Heart of Midlothian. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: JORDELOO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-j-l-o-o-o-r"

-3 letters: dolor, drool, looed, older, rodeo.

-4 letters: doer, dojo, dole, door, dore, jole, lode, lord, lore, odor, oleo, ordo, orle, redo, rode, role, rood.

-5 letters: del, doe, dol, dor, eld, joe, led, loo, ode, old, ole, ore, red, rod, roe.

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

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Alternative Orthography: JORDELOO


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

4A 4F 52 44 45 4C 4F 4F

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 01001111 01010010 01000100 01000101 01001100 01001111 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#74 &#79 &#82 &#68 &#69 &#76 &#79 &#79

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004A 004F 0052 0044 0045 004C 004F 004F

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

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

4449523839464949

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