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Braille

noun

French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852). Synonym: Louis Braille.

A point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals.

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"Braille" Quotes from Famous Books

... was taken once each week to St. Dunstan's to talk with other men in residence there—a species of initiation. While in hospital, too, as soon as we were able to work a little, we were given the rudiments of Braille. This was not compulsory; and if we wished to yield to fate and sit with hands idly folded we were at liberty to do so. But the majority of the men were eager ...

— Through St. Dunstan's to Light • James H. Rawlinson

... That the Braille system of raised dots is an inverted arrangement of cup marks: also that there are strong resemblances to the Morse code. But no tame and systematized archaeologist can do more than casually point out resemblances, and merely suggest ...

— The Book of the Damned • Charles Fort

Words linked to "Braille" : point system, educator, Louis Braille, transcribe, pedagog, transliterate, pedagogue