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Definition: Double-breasted |
Double-breastedAdjective1. (of clothing) fastened by lapping one edge of the front well over the other usually with a double row of buttons; "double-breasted jacket"; "double-breasted suit". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "double-breasted" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Antonym: single-breasted (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Double-breasted |
| English words defined with "double-breasted": Coat link ♦ double-breasted suit ♦ frock coat ♦ pea jacket, peacoat, Prince Albert, Prince-Albert coat ♦ Redingote. (references) |
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| "Double-breasted" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Double-breasted" is used about 58 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 58 | 44,427 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "double-breasted"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kaksirivinen (alternate, distichous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ダフ屋 (double, double-count, dowel, dumb, dummy, French cuffs, scalper, to coincide, to have two of something, to repeat a school year after failing), 両前 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ダブルブレスト , りょうまえ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | cooat dooblit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ouble-breastedday trespassado. (various references) chaqueta deportiva con botonadura doble (double-breasted blazer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-d-d-e-e-e-l-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: redoubtable. | |
-4 letters: belaboured, bluebeards, bobsledder, delustered, saddletree. | |
-5 letters: absoluter, beebreads, belabored, belabours, besteaded, bluebeard, blustered, bolstered, bouldered, deadbolts, desolated, desolater, doubtable, leeboards, leotarded, lobstered, outbreeds, redoubled, redoubles, resaluted, slabbered, slobbered, slubbered, steerable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 75 62 6C 65 2D 62 72 65 61 73 74 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01110101 01100010 01101100 01100101 00101101 01100010 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o u b l e - b r e a s t e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0075 0062 006C 0065 002D 0062 0072 0065 0061 0073 0074 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)388187687871156884716785867170 |
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