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Definition: PRUNELLO |
PRUNELLONoun1. A species of dried plum; prunelle. 2. A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Prunello Stuff. Prunello really means that woollen stuff of which common ecclesiastical gowns used to be made; it was also employed for the uppers of women's boots and shoes; everlasting. A corruption of Brignoles. "Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunello," Pope: Essay on Man, iv. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unimportance | Trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras, frippery; " leather or prunello "; chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse; (inutility); scum; (dirt). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PRUNELLO": prunellos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-l-n-o-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: pleuron. | |
-2 letters: enroll, loupen, pollen, poller, puller, repoll, unroll. | |
-3 letters: enrol, loner, loper, loupe, nerol, pelon, poler, prole, prone, prune, puler, rouen. | |
-4 letters: enol, euro, leno, lone, lope, lore, lorn, loup, lour, lune, lure, noel, nope, null, nurl, open, orle, peon, pole, poll, pone, pore, porn, pour, pule, pull, pure, purl, repo, role, roll. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-l-n-o-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: prunellos. | |
+3 letters: corpulently, polynuclear. | |
+4 letters: counterspell. | |
+5 letters: ceruloplasmin, counterspells, porcellaneous, supernormally. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 52 55 4E 45 4C 4C 4F |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. ..- -. . .-.. .-.. --- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01010010 01010101 01001110 01000101 01001100 01001100 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P R U N E L L O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0052 0055 004E 0045 004C 004C 004F |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5052554839464649 |
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