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PRE-RAPHAELITES

"PRE-RAPHAELITES" is a plural of: pre-raphaelite.

Date "PRE-RAPHAELITES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references)


Specialty Definition: PRE-RAPHAELITES

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Literature

Pre-Raphaelites A term introduced by Hunt and his friends, who wished to intimate that they preferred the simplicity and truthfulness of the painters who preceded Raphael. The term now signifies a very minute imitation of nature, brilliant colouring, and not much shadow. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: PRE-RAPHAELITES

English words defined with "PRE-RAPHAELITES": Dante Gabriel RossettiPre-RaphaeliteRossetti. (references)

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Commercial Usage: PRE-RAPHAELITES

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Books

  • Victorian Illustration: The Pre-Raphaelites, the Idyllic School and the High Victorians (reference)

  • Ruskin, Turner, and the Pre-Raphaelites (reference)

  • The Uses of the Unfashionable: The Pre-Raphaelites in the Nineteenth Century (Glen Cove Essays, No 1) (reference)

  • Pre-Raphaelites Re-Viewed (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: PRE-RAPHAELITES

"PRE-RAPHAELITES" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 74.19% of the time. "PRE-RAPHAELITES" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)74.19%2372,767
Noun (plural)22.58%7133,076
Adjective (general or positive)3.23%1339,140
                    Total100.00%31N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Anagrams: PRE-RAPHAELITES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-e-h-i-l-p-p-r-r-s-t"

-3 letters: peripherals.

-4 letters: papeteries, peripheral, preheaters, reappraise, sphalerite.

-5 letters: apetalies, appealers, appetiser, appraisee, appraiser, arterials, earthlier, earthpeas, earthrise, latherers, palestrae, palterers, papeterie, parietals, pearliest, pearlites, periplast, peripters, phratries, plasterer, preheater, pretrials, psalteria, rapparees, reappears, reapplies, rehearsal, reheaters, repartees, repealers, repeaters, replaster, rerepeats, retailers, shapelier, shelterer, tarpapers, therapies, threapers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PRE-RAPHAELITES


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

50 52 45 2D 52 41 50 48 41 45 4C 49 54 45 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01010010 01000101 00101101 01010010 01000001 01010000 01001000 01000001 01000101 01001100 01001001 01010100 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#69 &#45 &#82 &#65 &#80 &#72 &#65 &#69 &#76 &#73 &#84 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 0045 002D 0052 0041 0050 0048 0041 0045 004C 0049 0054 0045 0053

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

505239155235504235394643543953

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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