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PAPILLOTE

Definition: PAPILLOTE

PAPILLOTE

Noun

1. A small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl; a curl paper.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Synonyms within Context: PAPILLOTE

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: PAPILLOTE

Non-English Usage: "PAPILLOTE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (curler), Spanish (curlpaper).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PAPILLOTE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

en papillote

2

papillote

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: PAPILLOTE

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.

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Derivations: PAPILLOTE

Derivations

Words beginning with "PAPILLOTE": papillotes. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "PAPILLOTE"

Words rhyming with "PAPILLOTE" (pronounced 'Pap"il*lote'): Blote, Clote, Popelote, Zopilote. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PAPILLOTE

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PAPILLOTE


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

50 41 50 49 4C 4C 4F 54 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 01000001 01010000 01001001 01001100 01001100 01001111 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#65 &#80 &#73 &#76 &#76 &#79 &#84 &#69

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)

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

503550434646495439

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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