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Definition: PAPILLOTE |
PAPILLOTENoun1. A small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl; a curl paper. |
Date "PAPILLOTE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
Etymology: Papillote \Pap"il*lote\, noun. [French expression, from papillon butterfly.]. (Websters 1913) |
"PAPILLOTE" is a common misspelling or typo for: Appellate, Papillae. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Roughness | Brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet; fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi; lovelock; beaucatcher; curl paper; goatee; papillote, scalp lock. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PAPILLOTE |
| Non-English Usage: "PAPILLOTE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (curler), Spanish (curlpaper). |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
en papillote | 2 |
papillote | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "papillote"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | apillotepay.(various references) | |
Ukranian | папільйотка (curlpaper). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PAPILLOTE": papillotes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "PAPILLOTE" (pronounced 'Pap"il*lote'): Blote, Clote, Popelote, Zopilote. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: popliteal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-l-o-p-p-t" | |
-1 letter: oppilate. | |
-3 letters: aplite, lappet, laptop, opiate, pallet, pelota, piolet, polite, potpie, taille, telial, tipple, topple. | |
-4 letters: allot, appel, apple, atoll, ileal, lapel, leapt, lepta, palet, palpi, patio, pepla, petal, pieta, pilea, pilot, pipal, pipet, plait, plate, pleat, telia, teloi, tepal, toile. | |
-5 letters: alit, aloe, alto, atop, ilea, iota, late, lati, leal, leap, lept, lilt, lipa, lipe, lite, lope, lota, loti, olea, olla, opal, pail, pale, pall, palp, pate, peal, peat, pelt, pepo, pial, pile, pill, pipe, pita, plat, plea, plie, plop, plot, poet, pole, poll, pope, tael, tail, tale, tali, tall, tape, teal, tela, tell, tepa, tile, till, toea, toil, tola, tole, toll, tope, topi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-l-o-p-p-t" | |
+1 letter: papillotes. | |
+2 letters: apophyllite, appellation, leptospiral. | |
+3 letters: apophyllites, appellations, bipropellant, leptocephali. | |
+4 letters: bipropellants, proleptically, prophetically. | |
+5 letters: apoplectically, phenotypically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 41 50 49 4C 4C 4F 54 45 |
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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).--. .- .--. .. .-.. .-.. --- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000001 01010000 01001001 01001100 01001100 01001111 01010100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P A P I L L O T E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0041 0050 0049 004C 004C 004F 0054 0045 |
| 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)503550434646495439 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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