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Cusco

Definition: Cusco

Cusco

Noun

1. A town in the Andes in southern Peru; formerly the capital of the Inca empire.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Cusco" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)


Synonym: Cusco

Synonym: Cuzco (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Cusco

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Inca Cusco (1934)

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

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Commercial Usage: Cusco

DomainTitle

Books

  • Footprints Cusco and the Inca Trail Handbook (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Cusco

Photos:
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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Cusco

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Fashion model with llamas, Cusco, Peru. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cusco

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Business

The next show is scheduled for June 13 to 15, 2001, in Lima (exhibition and congress), and June 16-18, 2000 in Cusco (complementary activity). (references)

Economic History

Peru

The Cusco school of largely anonymous Indian artists followed the Spanish baroque tradition with influence from the Italian, Flemish, and French schools. (references)

Human Rights

Peru

Other inmates attacked him, and his attorney claims that the prison director ordered the inmates to do so. Prison authorities denied Pozo's attorney and social worker, both from the Association for Life and Human Dignity in Cusco, access to the prison. (references)

Travel

Peru

Olga Villagarcia, in Cusco to assist U.S. citizens traveling in that area, including to Machu Picchu. (references)

Worker Rights

Peru

In September President Toledo reinstalled the National Labor Council and opened two regional councils, one in Arequipa and one in Cusco, to address labor issues unique to each region. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cusco

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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462

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4

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252

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4

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86

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4

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18

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4

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13

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4

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13

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3

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12

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3

cusco del diario

9

cusco machu peru picchu tour

3

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9

cusco de departamento hotel

3

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7

cusco subaru

3

hoteles cusco

7

cusco peru machu picchu

3

cusco music

6

cage cusco roll

3

cusco danzas del

6

can catch cusco oil

3

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5

cusco del universidad

3

cusco performance

5

cusco hostel

3

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5

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3

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4

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3

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4

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3

cusco restaurant review

4

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3

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4

cusco del historia

3

cusco in spanish

4

bar cusco sway

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Cusco

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-o-s-u"

-2 letters: cos, sou.

-3 letters: os, so, us.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-o-s-u"
 

+1 letter: coccus, crocus, occurs, stucco, succor.

 

+2 letters: cachous, coccous, cockups, concurs, concuss, couches, cuckoos, floccus, occults, stuccos, succors, succory, succoth, succour, uncocks.

 

+3 letters: accounts, accustom, acoustic, bucolics, caducous, chubasco, cockshut, cockspur, cocksure, coconuts, conduces, conducts, couchers, councils, couscous, crocuses, crosscut, crouches, cuckolds, curacaos, curacoas, glucosic, occiputs, occludes, occlusal, occupies, pachucos, puccoons, reoccurs, stuccoed, stuccoer, stuccoes, succored, succorer, succours.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Cusco


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

43 75 73 63 6F

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)

-.-.    ..-    ...    -.-.    ---

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000011 01110101 01110011 01100011 01101111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#117 &#115 &#99 &#111

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0075 0073 0063 006F

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

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

3787856981

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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