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NITOUCHE

Specialty Definition: NITOUCHE

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Literature

Nitouche (St.) or Mie Touche (Touch-me-not). A hypocrite, a demure-looking pharisee. The French say, Faire la Sainte Nitouche, to pretend to great sanctity, or look as if butter would not melt in your mouth.
"It is certainly difficult to believe hard things of a woman who looks like Ste. Nitouche in profile."- J. O. Hobbes: Some Emotions and a Moral, chap. iii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Modern Usage: NITOUCHE

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Movie/TV Titles

Mamselle Nitouche (1963)

Frøken Nitouche (1963)

Mam'zelle Nitouche (1954)

Nitouche (1944)

Mamsell Nitouche (1931)

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

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Anagrams: NITOUCHE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-n-o-t-u"

-1 letter: couthie.

-2 letters: chiton, cohune, ethion, ethnic, noetic, notice, touche.

-3 letters: cento, centu, chine, chino, chute, conte, count, couth, cutie, cutin, ethic, niche, notch, ontic, ounce, tench, teuch, thein, thine, tonic, touch, tunic, unite, untie.

-4 letters: cent, chin, chit, chon, cine, cion, cite, coin, cone, coni, cote, cute, echo, etch, etic, etui, hent, hint, hone.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-n-o-t-u"
 

+1 letter: touchline.

 

+2 letters: outchidden, outechoing, retouching, touchiness, touchlines.

 

+3 letters: endothecium, euchromatin, neuropathic, outcheating, outreaching, outscheming, scouthering.

 

+4 letters: euchromatins, neurochemist, neutrophilic, outachieving, outpreaching, photoinduced, picturephone, touchinesses, truncheoning, unrhetorical.

 

+5 letters: authenticator, counterweight, countinghouse, decamethonium, hyperfunction, ichthyofaunae, immunochemist, neurochemists, outstretching, photoreducing, picturephones, unchlorinated, underclothing, untheoretical.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NITOUCHE


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

4E 49 54 4F 55 43 48 45

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)

01001110 01001001 01010100 01001111 01010101 01000011 01001000 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#73 &#84 &#79 &#85 &#67 &#72 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0049 0054 004F 0055 0043 0048 0045

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

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

4843544955374239

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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