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SBIRRI

Date "SBIRRI" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)


Specialty Definition: SBIRRI

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Literature

Sbirri (Italian). A police-force which existed in the pope's dominions. They were domiciled in private houses.
"He points them out to his sbirri and armed ruffians The Daily Telegraph. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Use in Literature: SBIRRI

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Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

These sbirri seemed a compound of the abjectness of the beggar and the authority of the executioner.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: SBIRRI

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-i-i-r-r-s"

-1 letter: birrs.

-2 letters: birr, bris, ibis, iris, ribs.

-3 letters: bis, brr, rib, sib, sir, sri.

-4 letters: bi, is, si.

 Words containing the letters "b-i-i-r-r-s"
 

+1 letter: ribiers.

 

+3 letters: beriberis, briberies, bristlier, firebirds, inscriber, libraries, railbirds, rainbirds, ricebirds.

 

+4 letters: bestirring, bilberries, birdbrains, breviaries, brigadiers, broideries, disbarring, firebricks, inkberries, inscribers, librarians, rabbitries, ribaldries, ribavirins, riflebirds, trihybrids.

 

+5 letters: airbrushing, barbarities, birthrights, bizarreries, carabiniers, carburising, distributor, herbivories, hybridizers, prescribing, proscribing, reimbursing, subirrigate, tailorbirds, tributaries, twinberries, whirlybirds.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SBIRRI


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

53 42 49 52 52 49

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)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000010 01001001 01010010 01010010 01001001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#66 &#73 &#82 &#82 &#73

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0042 0049 0052 0052 0049

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

533643525243

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INDEX

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


  

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