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ROBERT MACAIRE

Specialty Definition: ROBERT MACAIRE

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Literature

Robert Macaire He's a Robert Macaire. A bluff, free-living, unblushing libertine, who commits the most horrible crimes without stint or compunction. It is a character in M. Daumier's drama of L'Auberge des Adrets. His accomplice is Bertrand, a simpleton and villain. (See Macaire .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Synonyms within Context: ROBERT MACAIRE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Thief

Cut purse, pick purse; pickpocket, light-fingered gentry; sharper; card sharper, skittle sharper; thimblerigger; rook, Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher; defaulter; Autolycus, Jeremy Diddler, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster; swell mob, chevalier d'industrie; shoplifter.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: ROBERT MACAIRE

Specialty definitions using "ROBERT MACAIRE": MacaireNicknames. (references)

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Modern Usage: ROBERT MACAIRE

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Movie/TV Titles

Les Aventures de Robert Macaire (1925)

Robert Macaire et Bertrand (1907)

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

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Photo Album: ROBERT MACAIRE

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Robert Macaire Dentiste. / Honoré Daumier. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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

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Anagrams: ROBERT MACAIRE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-3 letters: bacteremia, barometric, crematoria.

-4 letters: aerobatic, barometer, carrotier, embraceor, iceboater, macerator.

-5 letters: acerbate, acierate, arboreta, aromatic, bacteria, barrater, barrator, barretor, barterer, boracite, catbrier, combater, crabmeat, creamier, cremator, emaciate, embracer, macerate, meteoric, microbar, racemate, rearmice, recamier, terraria.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ROBERT MACAIRE


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

52 4F 42 45 52 54      4D 41 43 41 49 52 45

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

    

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

01010010 01001111 01000010 01000101 01010010 01010100 00100000 01001101 01000001 01000011 01000001 01001001 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#79 &#66 &#69 &#82 &#84 &#32 &#77 &#65 &#67 &#65 &#73 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 004F 0042 0045 0052 0054      004D 0041 0043 0041 0049 0052 0045

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

524936395254247353735435239

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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