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RANZ DES VACHES

Definition: RANZ DES VACHES

RANZ DES VACHES

1. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



Specialty Definitions: RANZ DES VACHES

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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.

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Use in Literature: RANZ DES VACHES

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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.

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Modern Translations: RANZ DES VACHES

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.

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Anagrams: RANZ DES VACHES

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RANZ DES VACHES


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)

        

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)

&#82 &#65 &#78 &#90 &#32 &#68 &#69 &#83 &#32 &#86 &#65 &#67 &#72 &#69 &#83

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Fiction
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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