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Bamboo Curtain

Definition: Bamboo Curtain

Bamboo Curtain

Noun

1. An ideological barrier around communist China especially in the 1950s and 1960s.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Commercial Usage: Bamboo Curtain

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Books

  • A China Diary: An Account of the Discreet Exchanges and Contacts Behind the Bamboo Curtain, Leading to the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations betw (reference)

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Specialty Definition: Bamboo Curtain

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Bamboo Curtain was the Asian extension of the Iron Curtain.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bamboo Curtain."

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Expression: Bamboo Curtain

Expression using "bamboo curtain": the bamboo curtain. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bamboo Curtain

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bamboo curtain

190

bamboo curtain rod

25

bamboo curtain girl hula

2
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Modern Translations: Bamboo Curtain

Language Translations for "bamboo curtain"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

玉垂れ (palace). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たま れ (palace). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amboobay urtaincay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

cortina de bambu. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cortina de bambú. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bamburidån (the bamboo curtain). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

çin sınırı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bamboo Curtain

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-c-i-m-n-o-o-r-t-u"

-3 letters: abominator.

-4 letters: amaurotic, autonomic, carbamino, incubator.

-5 letters: abortion, aconitum, acromion, anatomic, animator, armonica, aromatic, barbican, botanica, coumarin, couranto, macaroni, macaroon, manubria, marabout, marocain, mobocrat, monocrat, raincoat, rambutan, romantic, tamboura.

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Alternative Orthography: Bamboo Curtain


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

42 61 6D 62 6F 6F      43 75 72 74 61 69 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01000010 01100001 01101101 01100010 01101111 01101111 00100000 01000011 01110101 01110010 01110100 01100001 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#109 &#98 &#111 &#111 &#32 &#67 &#117 &#114 &#116 &#97 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 006D 0062 006F 006F      0043 0075 0072 0074 0061 0069 006E

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

366779688181237878486677580

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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