Definitions for brailles

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brailles Braille

Spelling: [breyl]

IPA: /breɪl/

Brailles is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 388 anagrams from letters in brailles (abeillrs).

Definitions for brailles

noun

1. Louis [loo-is,, loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu ɪs,, ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1809–52, French teacher of the blind.
2. a system of writing or printing, devised by L. Braille for use by the blind, in which combinations of tangible dots or points are used to represent letters, characters, etc., that are read by touch.

verb (used with object)

1. to write or transliterate in Braille characters.

Origin of brailles

First recorded in 1850-55

Examples for brailles

He learned me the deaf alphabet, and how to read in the Braille book, and it's not so bad now.

This refers again to the printing of some of his books in Braille type for the blind.

If our interview were in person, she would ask me to type out questions on a Braille display.

After the reading of Braille has been mastered, writing it, an even more difficult operation, is taken up.

The fingers of the blind spelled out its optimism and its selections at Hawthorne in Braille.

According to the American Foundation for the Blind, Dufau eventually relented and the Braille code spread throughout the world.

For a while, indeed, I had to copy my Latin in Braille, so that I could recite with the other girls.

Braille and typewriting were taken up as a matter of course.

Kandynce went to Braille school so she could keep up her passion for reading, history in particular.

He could write Braille, with a punch and a Braille slate,--yes, indeed!