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SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE

Specialty Definition: SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE

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Literature

Soldiers of Fortune Chevaliers de l'industrie; men who live by their wits. Referring to those men in mediæval times who let themselves for hire into any army.
"His father was a soldier of fortune, as I am a sailor."- Sir W Scott: The Antiquary, chap. xx. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Modern Usage: SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE

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Movie/TV Titles

Soldiers of Fortune (1955)

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

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Commercial Usage: SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE

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Books

  • The condottieri: soldiers of fortune (reference)

  • Mercenary's Woman: Soldiers of Fortune (Romance, 1444) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Anagrams: SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-f-i-l-n-o-o-o-r-r-s-s-t-u"

-4 letters: stoloniferous.

-5 letters: oleoresinous, understories.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE


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

53 4F 4C 44 49 45 52 53      4F 46      46 4F 52 54 55 4E 45

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

        

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

01010011 01001111 01001100 01000100 01001001 01000101 01010010 01010011 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01000110 01001111 01010010 01010100 01010101 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#79 &#76 &#68 &#73 &#69 &#82 &#83 &#32 &#79 &#70 &#32 &#70 &#79 &#82 &#84 &#85 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004F 004C 0044 0049 0045 0052 0053      004F 0046      0046 004F 0052 0054 0055 004E 0045

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

534946384339525324940240495254554839

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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