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BLACK LETTER DAY

Specialty Definition: BLACK LETTER DAY

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Black Letter Day An unlucky day; one to be recalled with regret. The Romans marked their unlucky days with a piece of black charcoal, and their lucky ones with white chalk.
Black-letter dogs. Literary antiquaries who poke and pry into every hole and corner to find out black-letter copies of books.
"By fell black-letter dogs ...
That from Gothic kennels eager strut."
Matthias: Pursuits of Literature. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: BLACK LETTER DAY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-e-e-k-l-l-r-t-t-y"

-4 letters: acetylated, altercated, declarable, delectably, reattacked.

-5 letters: abreacted, acerbated, acetylate, alkylated, alterable, alterably, altercate, balladeer, belatedly, blacklead, blattered, bracketed, bracteate, clattered, clearable, lacerated, lateraled, relatable, relatedly, retackled, trabeated, traceable, trackball, tractable, tractably, tradeable, treatable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BLACK LETTER DAY


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

42 4C 41 43 4B      4C 45 54 54 45 52      44 41 59

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

        

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

01000010 01001100 01000001 01000011 01001011 00100000 01001100 01000101 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010 00100000 01000100 01000001 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#76 &#65 &#67 &#75 &#32 &#76 &#69 &#84 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#32 &#68 &#65 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004C 0041 0043 004B      004C 0045 0054 0054 0045 0052      0044 0041 0059

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

364635374524639545439522383559

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
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