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MOUCHARD

Specialty Definition: MOUCHARD

Domain	Definition
Literature	Mouchard (French). A spy, "qui fait comme les monches, qui voient si bien sans en avoir l'air. " At the close of the seventeenth century, those petits-maitres who frequented the Tuileries to see and be seen were called mouchards (fly-men). (Dictionnaire Etymologique de Menage.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms within Context: MOUCHARD

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Information	Informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective; sleuth; mouchard, spy, newsmonger; messenger; amicus curiae.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: MOUCHARD

Non-English Usage: "MOUCHARD" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (fink, informer, rat, sneak, snitch, stool pigeon).

Modern Usage: MOUCHARD

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Je suis un mouchard (1953)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: MOUCHARD

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
mouchard	4
anti mouchard	2
2000 mouchard window	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: MOUCHARD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-h-m-o-r-u"
	-2 letters: chador, chroma, dourah, drachm, maduro.
	-3 letters: amour, carom, chard, charm, chord, douma, doura, duroc, hoard, humor, macho, macro, march, mocha, mohur, mouch, mucor, mucro, mudra, orach, roach.
	-4 letters: arch, arco, arum, card, chad, cham, chao, char, chum, coda, coma, cord, corm, cram, crud, curd, dorm, doum, dour, dram, drum, duma, dura, duro, hard.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-h-m-o-r-u"
	+2 letters: outcharmed, outmarched.
	+3 letters: archdukedom.
	+4 letters: archdukedoms.
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Alternative Orthography: MOUCHARD

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

4D 4F 55 43 48 41 52 44

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)

01001101 01001111 01010101 01000011 01001000 01000001 01010010 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#79 &#85 &#67 &#72 &#65 &#82 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 004F 0055 0043 0048 0041 0052 0044

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

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

4749553742355238

INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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