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Definition: RANZ DES VACHES |
RANZ DES VACHES1. The name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Ranz des Vaches Simple melodies played by the Swiss mountaineers on their Alp-horn when they drive their herds to pasture, or call them home (pour ranger des vaches, to bring the cows to their place). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | They were beans cheerfully returning to their wild and primitive state that I cultivated, and my hoe played the Ranz des Vaches for them. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "ranz des vaches"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | anzray esday achesvay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-h-n-r-s-s-v-z" | |
-3 letters: scareheads. | |
-4 letters: advancers, ascenders, canvasers, canvassed, canvasser, cesareans, credenzas, crevassed, czardases, czarevnas, enchasers, harnessed, headraces, reascends, revanches, scarehead, verandahs. | |
-5 letters: advancer, advances, archness, ascender, cadavers, cadenzas, canvased, canvaser, canvases, caressed, casernes, caverned, cesarean, charades, charases, cravened, credenza, crevasse, czarevna, darshans, dasheens, dearness, drenches, earaches, encashed, encashes, enchased, enchaser, enchases, handcars, harassed, hardcase, hardness, headrace, reascend, reshaved, reshaven, reshaves, revanche, searched, searches, vendaces, verandah, verandas. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 41 4E 5A      44 45 53      56 41 43 48 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01000001 01001110 01011010 00100000 01000100 01000101 01010011 00100000 01010110 01000001 01000011 01001000 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R A N Z   D E S   V A C H E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0041 004E 005A      0044 0045 0053      0056 0041 0043 0048 0045 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5235486023839532563537423953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Fiction 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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