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COUTEAU

Definition: COUTEAU

COUTEAU

Noun

1. A knife; a dagger.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "COUTEAU" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)


Crosswords: COUTEAU

Specialty definitions using "COUTEAU": Cut your Coat according to your Cloth. (references)
Non-English Usage: "COUTEAU" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (chopper, fleam, knife).

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Modern Usage: COUTEAU

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

La Femme au couteau (1969)

Le Couteau dans la plaie (1963)

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

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Commercial Usage: COUTEAU

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ma femme, ma hache et mon couteau croche : deux siècles d'histoire à Weymontachie (reference)

  • Le couteau seul-- sonde le fond des choses = Sâe kouto sáel-- ki sav sa ini an káe a jiromon : la condition fâeminine aux Antilles (reference)

  • La vengeance du couteau à mastic (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COUTEAU

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

couteau

22

couteau laguiole

4

couteau suisse

3

couteau rob

2

couteau jean

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: COUTEAU

Derivations

Words beginning with "COUTEAU": couteaux. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: COUTEAU

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-o-t-u-u"

-1 letter: coteau.

-2 letters: acute.

-3 letters: auto, cate, coat, cote, cute, tace, taco, toea.

-4 letters: ace, act, ate, cat, cot, cue, cut, eat, eau, ecu, eta, oat, oca, out, tae, tao, tau, tea, toe, uta.

-5 letters: ae, at, et, oe, ta, to, ut.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-o-t-u-u"
 

+1 letter: couteaux.

 

+2 letters: cutaneous, tufaceous.

 

+3 letters: autoecious, tuffaceous.

 

+4 letters: crustaceous, cutaneously, unaccounted, uncountable, untouchable.

 

+5 letters: autoeciously, cautiousness, counterargue, elucubration, overcautious, percutaneous, subcutaneous, tubocurarine, unaccustomed, unconjugated, uninoculated, untouchables.

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

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Alternative Orthography: COUTEAU


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

43 4F 55 54 45 41 55

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 01001111 01010101 01010100 01000101 01000001 01010101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#85 &#84 &#69 &#65 &#85

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0055 0054 0045 0041 0055

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

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

37495554393555

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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