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RAILLEUR

Definition: RAILLEUR

RAILLEUR

Noun

1. A banterer; a jester; a mocker.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "RAILLEUR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references)

Etymology: Railleur \Rail`leur"\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: RAILLEUR

Non-English Usage: "RAILLEUR" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (derisive, derisory, giber, mocker, mocking, scoffer, scoffing).

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Modern Translations: RAILLEUR

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

Pig Latin

  

ailleurray.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: RAILLEUR

Derivations

Words ending with "RAILLEUR": derailleur. (additional references)

Words containing "RAILLEUR": derailleurs. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: RAILLEUR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-l-r-r-u"

-1 letter: allurer, rallier.

-2 letters: allure, irreal, laurel, railer, rulier.

-3 letters: airer, ariel, aurei, ileal, iller, lurer, rille, ruler, rural, uraei, urare, urari, ureal, urial.

-4 letters: aril, earl, ilea, lair, lari, leal, lear, liar, lier, lieu, lira, lire, lure, rail, rale, rare, real, rear, rial, riel, rile, rill, ruer, rule, urea.

-5 letters: ail, air, ale, all, are, ear, eau, ell, era, err, ill, ire, lar, lea, lei, leu, lie, rei, ria, rue.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-l-r-r-u"
 

+1 letter: guerrilla.

 

+2 letters: derailleur, guerrillas.

 

+3 letters: derailleurs, irregularly, mercurially, multibarrel, quarrelling, tranquiller, ultravirile.

 

+4 letters: carillonneur, interlobular, sericultural, turbellarian, ultraliberal, ultrarealism, ultrarealist.

 

+5 letters: antiguerrilla, carillonneurs, circumstellar, intercellular, intercultural, intracellular, multibarreled, quadrilateral, tranquillizer, turbellarians, ultrafiltrate, ultraliberals, ultrarealisms, ultrarealists, ultrareliable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RAILLEUR


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

52 41 49 4C 4C 45 55 52

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)

01010010 01000001 01001001 01001100 01001100 01000101 01010101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#65 &#73 &#76 &#76 &#69 &#85 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0041 0049 004C 004C 0045 0055 0052

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

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

5235434646395552

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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