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Date "SORDELLO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Sordello A poem by Robert Browning, showing the conflict of a minstrel about the best way of making his influence felt, whether personally or by the power of song. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sordello | 4 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-l-o-o-r-s" | |
-2 letters: dolors, dorsel, drolls, drools, loosed, looser, oodles, resold, rodeos, rolled, roosed, solder, soloed. | |
-3 letters: dells, doers, doles, dolls, dolor, doors, doser, droll, drool, lodes, looed, loose, lords, lores, losel, loser, odors, older, oleos, ordos, orles, redos, resod, rodeo, roles, rolls, roods, roose, rosed, soldo, soled, sorel. | |
-4 letters: dell, dels, doer, does, dole, doll. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-l-o-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: bordellos, doorbells, folderols. | |
+3 letters: chloralosed, toolholders. | |
+4 letters: dorsolateral, haloperidols, petrodollars. | |
+5 letters: mollycoddlers, policyholders, throttleholds. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4F 52 44 45 4C 4C 4F |
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| 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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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- .-. -.. . .-.. .-.. --- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001111 01010010 01000100 01000101 01001100 01001100 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S O R D E L L O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004F 0052 0044 0045 004C 004C 004F |
| 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)5349523839464649 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Slideshow 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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