MATAMORE

  

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MATAMORE

Specialty Definition: MATAMORE

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Matamore (3 syl.). A poltroon, a swaggerer, a Major Bobadil (q.v.). A French term composed of two Spanish words, matar-Moros (a slayer of Moors.)
"Your followers ... must bandy and brawl in my court ... like so many Matamoros."- Sir. W. Scott: Kenilworth, chap. xvi. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: MATAMORE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: aortae, marmot, ramate.

-3 letters: amort, aorta, armet, aroma, mater, metro, morae, oater, orate, ramet, reata, tamer.

-4 letters: aero, ammo, area, atma, atom, maar, mama, mare, mart, mate, meat, memo, meta, moat, mome, mora, more, mort, mote, omer, rate, rato, ream, roam, rota, rote, tame, tare, taro, team, tear, term, toea, tome, tora, tore.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-m-m-o-r-t"
 

+2 letters: dermatomal.

 

+3 letters: macrogamete, meprobamate.

 

+4 letters: chromonemata, macrogametes, melodramatic, meprobamates.

 

+5 letters: compartmental, ideogrammatic, melodramatics, melodramatise, melodramatist, melodramatize, metachromatic, nonmainstream.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MATAMORE


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

4D 41 54 41 4D 4F 52 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)

01001101 01000001 01010100 01000001 01001101 01001111 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#65 &#84 &#65 &#77 &#79 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0041 0054 0041 004D 004F 0052 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

4735543547495239

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