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Definition: ROQUELAURE |
ROQUELAURENoun1. A cloak reaching about to, or just below, the knees, worn in the 18th century. |
Date "ROQUELAURE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Etymology: Roquelaure \Roq"ue*laure\, noun. [French expression; so called after Duc de Roquelaure, in the reign of Louis XIV.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Roquelaure A cloak; so called from the Duke de Roquelaure. (George II.) " `Your honour's roquelaure,' replied the corporal, `has not once been had on since the night before your honour received your wound:' "- Sterne: Tristram Shandy; Story of Le Fevre. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Cloak, pall, mantle, mantlet mantua, shawl, pelisse, wrapper; veil; cape, tippet, kirtle, plaid, muffler, comforter, haik, huke, chlamys, mantilla, tabard, housing, horse cloth, burnoose, burnous, roquelaure; houppelande; surcoat, overcoat, great coat; surtout, spencer; mackintosh, waterproof, raincoat; ulster, P-coat, dreadnought, wraprascal, poncho, cardinal, pelerine; barbe, chudder, jubbah, oilskins, pajamas, pilot jacket, talma |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ROQUELAURE |
| Etymologies containing "ROQUELAURE": Rokelay. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The king has Roquelaure, the people has Harlequin. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "ROQUELAURE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.24% of the time. "ROQUELAURE" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 88.24% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 11.76% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| France | Raynal et Roquelaure |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
a n roquelaure | 6 |
a.n roquelaure | 4 |
roquelaure | 4 |
ann roquelaure | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ROQUELAURE": roquelaures. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-o-q-r-r-u-u" | |
-3 letters: aureole, quarrel, rorqual, rouleau. | |
-4 letters: areole, quaere, queuer, realer. | |
-5 letters: equal, laree, lurer, quale, quare, queer, queue, roque, ruler, rural, urare, ureal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-o-q-r-r-u-u" | |
+1 letter: roquelaures. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 4F 51 55 45 4C 41 55 52 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. --- --.- ..- . .-.. .- ..- .-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01001111 01010001 01010101 01000101 01001100 01000001 01010101 01010010 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R O Q U E L A U R E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 004F 0051 0055 0045 004C 0041 0055 0052 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52495155394635555239 |
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