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RED FEATHERS

Specialty Definition: RED FEATHERS

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Red Feathers (The). The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. They cut to pieces General Wayne's brigade in the American War, and the Americans vowed to give them no quarter. So they mounted red feathers that no others might be subjected to this threat. They still wear red puggarees on Indian service. (See Lacedaemonians .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: RED FEATHERS

English words defined with "RED FEATHERS": Rubythroat. (references)

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Use in Literature: RED FEATHERS

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Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

There was the squawk of an outraged hen, a burst of red feathers, and the hen ran off, flapping stubby wings for speed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RED FEATHERS

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.
 
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red feathers lake colorado

6
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Anagrams: RED FEATHERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-f-h-r-r-s-t"

-1 letter: hereafters.

-2 letters: defeaters, feathered, federates, hereafter, redefeats, refreshed, rehearsed, reheaters, rethreads, threaders.

-3 letters: adherers, arrested, arrestee, defeater, deserter, draftees, drafters, fathered, feathers, federate, ferrates, ferreted, festered, haeredes, headrest, raftered, redefeat, redrafts, rehearse, reheated, reheater, reseated, rethread, retreads, serrated, sheetfed, threader, treaders.

-4 letters: adherer, adheres, aethers, afreets, darters, deafest, dearest, dearths, defeats, derates, draftee, drafter.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RED FEATHERS


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

52 45 44      46 45 41 54 48 45 52 53

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

    

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

01010010 01000101 01000100 00100000 01000110 01000101 01000001 01010100 01001000 01000101 01010010 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#68 &#32 &#70 &#69 &#65 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#82 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0044      0046 0045 0041 0054 0048 0045 0052 0053

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

52393824039355442395253

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Fiction
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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