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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Nursery Tales Well-known ones:- ARABIAN NIGHTS: Aladdin's Lamp, The Forty Thieves, Sinbad the Sailor, and hundreds more. CARROLL (Lewis): Alice in Wonderland, Hunting the Snark, etc. D'AULNOY (Mme.): King of the Peacocks, The Blue Bird, and many others. FOUQUE. De la Motte: Undine. GOLDSMITH (Oliver): Goody Twoshoes. 1765. GRIMM: Goblin Tales. JOHNSON (Richard): The Seven Champions of Christendom. KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN (Lord Brabourne): Stories for Children, etc. LE SAGE: The Devil on Two Sticks. PERRAULT, Charles (A Frenchman): Blue Board, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Riquet with the Tuft, Sleeping Beauty, etc. RIDLEY (James): Tales of the Genii. SCANDINAVIAN: Jack-and the Beanstalk, Jack the Giant-killer, and some others. SOUTHEY: The Three Bears. STRAPAROLA (an Italian): Fortunatus SWIFT (Dean): Gulliver's Travels. VILLENEUVE (Mme): Beauty and the Beast It is said that the old nursery rhyme about an old woman tossed in a blanket was written as a satire against the French expedition of Henry V., and the cobwebs to be swept from the sky were the points of contention between the King of England and the King of France. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: NURSERY TALES |
| Specialty definitions using "NURSERY TALES": Grethel ♦ Puss in Boots. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-n-r-r-s-s-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: saunterers. | |
-3 letters: alertness, austerely, earnestly, renatures, resalutes, saunterer, sauternes, sensately, treasures. | |
-4 letters: alterers, anestrus, anureses, assenter, asserter, austerer, earnests, easterly, ensurers, erasures, errantly, eternals, lateness, learners, nestlers, neutrals, rareness, realness, realters, reassert, reassure, relaters, relearns, relearnt, renature, resalute, reslates, restyles, rustlers, salterns, saluters, sarsenet, saunters, sauterne, serrates, snarlers, stealers, strayers, streusel, styrenes, tearless. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-n-r-r-s-s-t-u-y" | |
+3 letters: subterraneously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 55 52 53 45 52 59      54 41 4C 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01010101 01010010 01010011 01000101 01010010 01011001 00100000 01010100 01000001 01001100 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N U R S E R Y   T A L E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0055 0052 0053 0045 0052 0059      0054 0041 004C 0045 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4855525339525925435463953 |
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