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Date "ROUEN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
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Literature | Rouen Aller á Rouen. To go to ruin. The French are full of these puns, and our merry forefathers indulged in them also. (1) Il a fait son cours à Asnières. He knows nothing; he graduated at Dunse [Dunce] College. (2) Aller à Cachan. To give leg-bail, or "se cacher" [de ses créanciers]; to go to Hyde [Hide] Park. (3) Aller à Dourdan. To go to be whipped (douder, être battu); to be on the road to Flogny. (4) Vous êtes de Lagny, vous n'avez pas hâte. I see you are a man of Laggon. Don't hurry yourself, Mr. Slowcoach. (5) Il est de Lunel, Il a une chamvre à Lunel, Il est des Luniers d'Orléans, or Il est Logé à la Lune. He îs a lunatic. (6) Envoyer à Mortaigne. To be slain, or sent to Deadham. (7) Aller à Patras. To die; to be gathered to one's fathers (ad patres). (8) Aller à Versailles. To be going to the bad. Here the pun is between Versa-illes and renverser. This wretched pun is about equal to such a phrase as "Going to Downham." The Bloody Feast of Rouen (1356). Charles the Dauphin gave a banquet to his private friends at Rouen, to which his brother-in-law Charles the Bad was invited. While the guests were at table King Jean entered the room with a numerous escort, exclaiming, "Traitor, thou art not worthy to sit at table with my son!" Then, turning to his guards, he added, "Take him hence! By holy Paul, I will neither eat nor drink till his head be brought me!" Then, seizing an iron mace from one of the men-at-arms, he struck another of the guests between the shoulders, exclaiming, "Out, proud traitor! by the soul of my father, thou shalt not live!" Four of the guests were beheaded on the spot. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Rouen is part of Agglomération de Rouen Haute-Normandie which gathers 34 towns and 391.375 inhabitants.
During the Hundred Years' War, on January 19, 1419, Rouen surrendered to Henry V of England which made Normandy a part of England. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen on May 30, 1431.
On April 16, 1203 Philippe Auguste entered Rouen and definitively joined Normandy to the French kingdom in 1204.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rouen."
Crosswords: ROUEN |
| Specialty definitions using "ROUEN": Dragon Slayers ♦ Gargouille ♦ HALF ♦ King of Yvetot ♦ Larigot ♦ Ribston Pippin. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Ma vraie vie à Rouen (2002) | |
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 | [Red Cross Kitchen in front of stables, Base Hosp. 21, Rouen, France]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 21, Rouen, France. : Group of surgical personnel, officers. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Tower, Tour de Darnetal, near Rouen, France. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Rouen, France. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | St-Ouen de Rouen abbey church, Rouen, France. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | At Rouen, after a sketch by Alfred Hamlin / Gilbert. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Rep. René L. De Rouen, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Great bridge at Rouen. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Rouen cathedral. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | A diligence then made the trip to Rouen from the Rue du Bouloi by night passing through Vernon. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper. |
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| "ROUEN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ROUEN" is used about 151 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) | 100% | 151 | 25,596 |
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| France | Compagnie des Tramways de Rouen S.A. |
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Beginning with "ROUEN": Rouen-dieppe. | |
Containing "ROUEN": Solent-rouen-sennely. | |
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| 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. |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Rotomagense. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "ROUEN": rouens. (additional references) | |
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"ROUEN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ardouin, Drouin, Drouyn, Louen, Nouwen, Rahunen, Rakusen, Raquin, Requena, Reuan, Reuven, Roazen, Roben, Roijen, Roine, Roizen, Romen, Rooyen, Rouah, Rouan, Rouane, Rouanet, Roubein, rouens, Rouke, routen, Royen, Rufeno, Youern. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: euro, roue, rune. | |
-2 letters: eon, ern, nor, one, ore, our, roe, rue, run, urn. | |
-3 letters: en, er, ne, no, nu, oe, on, or, re, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: bourne, enduro, neuron, rouens, tenour, undoer, unrobe, unrove. | |
+2 letters: aleuron, arenous, bouncer, bounder, bournes, burgeon, coenure, coenuri, conjure, conquer, cornute, counter, crunode, dourine, enamour, enduros, fenuron, forerun, fortune, founder, frounce, guerdon, hounder, journey, lounger, mounter, mourned, mourner, nervous, neuroid, neuroma, neurone, neurons, neutron, nonuser, onerous, outearn, overrun, pleuron, pouncer, pounder, rebound, recount, redound, refound, remount, resound, reunion, rewound, rondeau, rondure, roughen, rounded, roundel, rounder, routine, runover, sounder, surgeon, tenours, tonsure, tourney, trounce, unbroke, uncover, underdo, undergo, undoers, unfroze, unhorse, unrobed, unrobes, unroped, unroven, unsober, unswore, upborne, urinose, younger, younker. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 4F 55 45 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. --- ..- . -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01001111 01010101 01000101 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R O U E N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 004F 0055 0045 004E |
| 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)5249553948 |
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