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Definitions: CICISBEO |
CICISBEONoun1. A knot of silk or ribbon attached to a fan, walking stick, etc. 2. A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women. |
Date "CICISBEO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1777. (references) |
Etymology: Cicisbeo \Ci`cis*be"o\, noun; plural Italian Cicisbei. [Italian]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Love | Lover, suitor, follower, admirer, adorer, wooer, amoret, beau, sweetheart, inamorato, swain, young man, flame, love, truelove; leman, Lothario, gallant, paramour, amoroso, cavaliere servente, captive, cicisbeo; caro sposo. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CICISBEO |
| English words defined with "CICISBEO": Cicisbei, Cicisbeism. (references) |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CICISBEO": cicisbeos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-c-e-i-i-o-s" | |
-1 letter: boccies. | |
-2 letters: bocces, boccie, boccis, ibices. | |
-3 letters: bices, bocce, bocci, cisco, cosec, cosie, secco. | |
-4 letters: bice, bios, bise, cobs, ibis, ices, obes, obis, sice. | |
-5 letters: bio, bis, bos, cis, cob, cos, ice, obe, obi, oes, ose, sec, sei, sib, sic, sob. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-c-e-i-i-o-s" | |
+1 letter: cicisbeos, libeccios. | |
+2 letters: bioscience, libecchios. | |
+3 letters: biosciences. | |
+4 letters: bacteriocins, biochemicals, biomechanics, brecciations. | |
+5 letters: biconcavities, bioscientific, concupiscible, objectivistic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 49 43 49 53 42 45 4F |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .. -.-. .. ... -... . --- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001001 01000011 01001001 01010011 01000010 01000101 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C I C I S B E O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0049 0043 0049 0053 0042 0045 004F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3743374353363949 |
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