Oeil De Boeuf

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Oeil De Boeuf

Specialty Definitions: Oeil De Boeuf

Domain	Definitions
Literature	OEil de Boeuf (L'). A large reception-room (salle) in the palace of Versailles, lighted by round windows so called. The ceiling, decorated by Van der Meulen, contained likenesses of the children of Louis XIV. (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries). Les Fastes de l'OEil de Boeuf. The annals of the courtiers of the Grand Monarque; anecdotes of courtiers generally. The oeil de boeuf is the round window seen in entresols, etc. The ante-room where courtiers waited at the royal chamber of Versailles had these ox-eye windows, and hence they were called by this name. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonym: Oeil De Boeuf

Synonym by domain: bull's-eye (public administration, building & civil engineering).

Modern Translations: Oeil De Boeuf

Language		Translations for "oeil de boeuf"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Dutch		oeil-de-boeuf (bull's eye). (various references)

French		oeil-de-boeuf. (various references)

German		Ochsenauge (bullion, bull's eye, Indo-Pacific tarpon), Rundfenster (bull's eye), Radfenster (bull's eye). (various references)

Pig Latin		oeilay eday oeufbay
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Anagrams: Oeil De Boeuf

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-e-f-i-l-o-o-u"
	-3 letters: befooled, befouled.
	-4 letters: folioed.
	-5 letters: beefed, befool, befoul, belied, belief, bifold, blooie, boiled, bolide, boodle, defile, diobol, doolee, doolie, double, edible, feeble, flooie, foible, foiled, foodie, fooled, fouled, fueled.
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Alternative Orthography: Oeil De Boeuf

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

4F 65 69 6C 44 65 42 6F 65 75 66

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

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

01001111 01100101 01101001 01101100 00100000 01000100 01100101 00100000 01000010 01101111 01100101 01110101 01100110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#101 &#105 &#108 &#32 &#68 &#101 &#32 &#66 &#111 &#101 &#117 &#102

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0065 0069 006C 0044 0065 0042 006F 0065 0075 0066

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

497175782387123681718772

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