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Date "VAUGIRARD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Vaugirard The deputies of Vaugirard. Only one individual. This applies to all the false companies in which the promoter represents the directors, chairman, committee, and entire staff. The expression is founded on an incident in the reign of Charles VIII. of France: The usher announced to the king "The deputies of Vaugirard." "How many are there?" asked the king. "Only one, and please your majesty," was the answer. (See Tailors .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Noël à Vaugirard (1966) | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the black cross entered the avenue of the Vaugirard cemetery. |
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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 |
novotel paris vaugirard | 4 |
novotel vaugirard | 2 |
paris vaugirard | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-i-r-r-u-v" | |
-2 letters: gravida. | |
-3 letters: gravid. | |
-4 letters: agria, aurar, durra, guard, guava, radar, urari, varia, virga. | |
-5 letters: agar, aria, arid, aura, avid, diva, drag, drug, dura, durr, gadi, gaud, gaur, gird, grad, grid, guar, guid, raga, ragi, raia, raid, ruga, vagi, vair, vara, viga. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 41 55 47 49 52 41 52 44 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .- ..- --. .. .-. .- .-. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01000001 01010101 01000111 01001001 01010010 01000001 01010010 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V A U G I R A R D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0041 0055 0047 0049 0052 0041 0052 0044 |
| 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)563555414352355238 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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