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Braille

[ breyl ]

noun

  1. Louis [loo, -is, loo, -ee, lwee], 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)

, Brailled, Braill·ing.
  1. to write or transliterate in Braille characters.

Braille

1

/ breɪl /

noun

  1. a system of writing for the blind consisting of raised dots that can be interpreted by touch, each dot or group of dots representing a letter, numeral, or punctuation mark
  2. See Moon
    any writing produced by this method Compare Moon


verb

  1. tr to print or write using this method

Braille

2

/ braj /

noun

  1. BrailleLouis18091852MFrenchTECHNOLOGY: inventorMUSIC: musicianEDUCATION: teacher of the blind Louis (lwi). 1809–52, French inventor, musician, and teacher of the blind, who himself was blind from the age of three and who devised the Braille system of raised writing

Braille

  1. A system of writing and printing for the blind in which arrangements of raised dots representing letters and numbers can be identified by touch.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Braille1

First recorded in 1850–55

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Example Sentences

On the bench, Tatel uses a small Braille computer, listening through one earpiece as he clicks through his meticulous notes.

A student in Hong Kong made headlines in 2013 by teaching herself to read Braille with her lips.

A student in Hong Kong made headlines in 2013 for teaching herself to read Braille with her lips.

It shows her struggling to navigate the website for the memorial, and then once there, trying to piece together the Braille like a puzzle.

A simple solution, she says, would be to add small signs that explain in readable Braille that the Braille on the memorial is an artistic rendering that is not to scale.

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

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

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

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

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

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

He has brought his Braille printing to a fine state of perfection.

They take in and read Braille magazines in various languages.

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