PERCALINE

  

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PERCALINE

Definition: PERCALINE

PERCALINE

Noun

1. A fine kind of French cotton goods, usually of one color.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Specialty Definitions: PERCALINE

DomainDefinitions

Industry

A lustrous, soft-finished cotton lining fabric of the lawn type, generally dyed in dark shades. Used in the clothing and few industries. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translations: PERCALINE

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

Danish

  

perkal (cloth). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

perkaline (cloth). (various references)

   

French

  

percaline. (various references)

   

German

  

Perkaline (cloth). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

περκαλίνη (cloth). (various references)

   

Italian

  

percallina (cloth). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ercalinepay

   

Portuguese

  

percalina (cloth). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

percalina (cloth). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: PERCALINE

Derivations

Words beginning with "PERCALINE": percalines. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: PERCALINE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-n-p-r"

-1 letter: penciler, perineal, preclean, reliance.

-2 letters: aliener, calipee, caliper, capelin, caprine, carline, cleaner, elapine, panicle, pelican, percale, perinea, plainer, praline, reclean, recline, repanel, replace, replica.

-3 letters: aliner, alpine, apiece, apneic, caplin, careen, carlin, carnie, carpel, ceiler, cereal, crenel, eclair, enlace, epical, inlace, lacier, lancer, larine, leaner, leaper, lierne, linear, nailer, palier, panier, parcel, pencel.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-n-p-r"
 

+1 letter: epicentral, percalines.

 

+2 letters: centripetal, praelecting, precleaning, preclearing.

 

+3 letters: inoperculate, narcolepsies, perceptional, porcelainize, precanceling, precentorial, precessional.

 

+4 letters: centripetally, cephaloridine, cerebrospinal, convertiplane, deprecatingly, inappreciable, inoperculates, interparticle, leprechaunish, letterspacing, parenthetical, perpendicular, porcelainized, porcelainizes, porcelainlike, precancelling, republicanize, rhinencephala, semiporcelain, unpredictable.

 

+5 letters: cephaloridines, conceptualizer, convertiplanes, depreciatingly, electroplating, hypermasculine, hypervigilance, hypoallergenic, indecipherable, letterspacings, overcompliance, perpendiculars, prosencephalic, republicanized, republicanizes, rhinencephalic, rhinencephalon, semiporcelains, supermasculine, undecipherable, unpredictables.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PERCALINE


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

50 45 52 43 41 4C 49 4E 45

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)

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

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

01010000 01000101 01010010 01000011 01000001 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#69 &#82 &#67 &#65 &#76 &#73 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0045 0052 0043 0041 004C 0049 004E 0045

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

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

503952373546434839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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