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SPARADRAP

Definition: SPARADRAP

SPARADRAP

Noun

1. Any adhesive plaster.

2. A cerecloth.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SPARADRAP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Etymology: Sparadrap \Spar"a*drap\, noun. [French expression sparadrap; compare to Italian expression sparadrappo, New Latin sparadrapa.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: SPARADRAP

Non-English Usage: "SPARADRAP" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (adhesive bandage, plaster, sticking, sticking plaster).

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Use in Literature: SPARADRAP

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The dressings were complicated and difficult, the fastening of cloths and bandages with sparadrap not being invented at that period.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: SPARADRAP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-p-p-r-r-s"

-3 letters: radars, sardar.

-4 letters: arras, papas, paras, pards, parrs, radar.

-5 letters: daps, pads, papa, paps, para, pard, parr, pars, rads, raps, rasp, sard, spar.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-d-p-p-r-r-s"
 

+2 letters: paraphrased.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SPARADRAP


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

53 50 41 52 41 44 52 41 50

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)

...    .--.    .-    .-.    .-    -..    .-.    .-    .--.

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

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

01010011 01010000 01000001 01010010 01000001 01000100 01010010 01000001 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#80 &#65 &#82 &#65 &#68 &#82 &#65 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0050 0041 0052 0041 0044 0052 0041 0050

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

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

535035523538523550

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INDEX

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


  

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