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Pelage

Definition: Pelage

Pelage

Noun

1. Growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Pelage \Pel"age\, noun. [French expression pelage, from the Latin expression pilus hair.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Synonym: Pelage

Synonym: coat (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Pelage

English words defined with "pelage": PilageWhite rabbit. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Pelage" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (coat, fur, hide, peel, pelage, skin).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pelage

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

de essai pelage

6

pelage

3

de pelage test

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Pelage

Language Translations for "pelage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

qime (fur, fuzz, hair, Seta), lesh kafshe, gëzof (coat, fur, hide, Peel, pelt, peltry, skin). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فرو (fur, pelt), ‏معط الشعر (tear out), ‏نتف الشعر, ‏إهاب الحيوان الثديي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

козина (bristle, coat, fell, fur, furring, hair, jacket), кожа (derm, fell, fur, furring, head, hide, leather, pelt, skin, wrap). (various references)

   

Danish

  

haarbeklaedning. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

haarkleed. (various references)

   

French

  

pelage (peel, peeling), revêtement pileux. (various references)

   

German

  

Haarkleid. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τρίχωση, τρίχωμα ζώου (coat). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szõrzet. (various references)

   

Italian

  

rivestimento peloso. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elagepay

   

Portuguese

  

pelagem (hair), peco, revestimento piloso. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

шкура (fell, hide, pelt, skin). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vuna (fleece, wool), krzno (coat, fell, fur, hide, pelt), dlaka (braid, hair, pile, whisker). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pelaje (appearance, fur). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hårbeklädnad (coat). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

memeli hayvan kürkü, kürk (fur, fur coat). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

волосяний покрив. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

bộ lông thú, bộ da lông. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Pelage

Derivations

Words beginning with "pelage": pelages. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Pelage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Delagi, elage, Ephage, melage, palage, Palagi, Palagio, Palago, palare, Pallagi, Parlagi, peagen, Pelagi, Pelagia, pelagian, pelagin, Pelagio, pelago, pelame, pelee, pellate, peloge, peluge, petage, Pfleger, pilae, pilare, pilige, plag, plaget, pleabe, pleage, pleague, plege, Plegel, plesage, Poage, Polge, Pollage, pologa, pulge. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Pelage"

Words rhyming with "pelage" (pronounced 'Pel"age'): Abusage, Accourage, Adage, Adjustage, Alloyage, Amperage, Appendage, Arrearage, Berthage, Blindage, blockage, Boatage, Bondage, Borage, Bordage, Bossage, Breakage, Brewage, Buoyage, Burgage, Careenage, Cartage, Centage, Checkage, Chiefage, Clearage, Cloudage, Clownage, Coinage, Corage, Cordage, Corkage, Costage, Couage, Courage, Cranage, Crimpage, Cuinage, Demorage, Disusage, Dockage, Domage, Doomage, Dosage, Drainage, Drayage, Driftage, Drownage, Dumpage, Eatage. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Pelage

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-l-p"

-1 letter: aglee, eagle, peage, plage.

-2 letters: agee, alee, egal, gale, gape, glee, leap, page, pale, peag, peal, peel, pele, plea.

-3 letters: age, ale, alp, ape, eel, gae, gal, gap, gee, gel, lag, lap, lea, lee, leg, pal, pea, pee, peg.

-4 letters: ae, ag, al, el, la, pa, pe.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-l-p"
 

+1 letter: epigeal, pelages.

 

+2 letters: perigeal, prelegal.

 

+3 letters: beleaping, gantelope, grapelike, pentangle, pilferage, porbeagle, pregnable, repealing, telegraph.

 

+4 letters: empaneling, epipelagic, esophageal, gantelopes, goalkeeper, hemiplegia, legateship, megalopses, pentangles, permillage, persiflage, pilferages, plasmagene, porbeagles, pregenital, presageful, repaneling, repleading, superlarge, telegraphs, telegraphy.

 

+5 letters: empanelling, espaliering, frankpledge, generalship, goalkeepers, hemiplegias, impregnable, leapfrogged, legateships, mesopelagic, overleaping, pedestaling, permillages, persiflages, pigheadedly, plangencies, plasmagenes, praelecting, precleaning, preclearing, prolegomena, repanelling, telegraphed, telegrapher, telegraphic, upgradeable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Pelage


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

50 65 6C 61 67 65

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)

01010000 01100101 01101100 01100001 01100111 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#101 &#108 &#97 &#103 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0065 006C 0061 0067 0065

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

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

507178677371

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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