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RETROCHOIR

Definition: RETROCHOIR

RETROCHOIR

Noun

1. Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Retrochoir \Re"tro*choir\, noun. [Prefix retro- choir.]. (Websters 1913)


Modern Translations: RETROCHOIR

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

Bulgarian 

  

пространство зад олтара. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etrochoirray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "RETROCHOIR"

Words rhyming with "RETROCHOIR" (pronounced 'Re"tro*choir'): Antechoir, Choir, Mouchoir. (additional references)

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Anagrams: RETROCHOIR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-o-o-r-r-r-t"

-2 letters: rhetoric, torchier.

-3 letters: cheroot, heritor, hootier, rootier.

-4 letters: chirre, cither, coheir, cohort, cooter, cootie, corrie, erotic, hector, heriot, heroic, hooter, horror, octroi, orrice, rector, rhetor, richer, rioter, rochet, rooter, rotche, terror, thoric, thrice, tocher, torero, troche.

-5 letters: chert, chiro, chirr, choir, chore, citer, cooer, corer, crier, crore, error, ethic, hirer, ichor, ither, ocher, ochre.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-o-o-r-r-r-t"
 

+5 letters: hypercorrection, reorchestration.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RETROCHOIR


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

52 45 54 52 4F 43 48 4F 49 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)

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Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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