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braille
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Braille is a tactile writing system used by people who are blind or visually impaired . It is traditionally written with embossed paper. Braille-users can read computer screens and other electronic supports thanks to refreshable braille displays . They ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1853, from Louis Braille (1809-1852), French musician and teacher, blind from age 3, who devised it c.1830.
Usage examples of braille.
He read pages of Braille printing, the system of upraised dots designed for the blind, to sharpen his sense of touch.
These we hauled to the Braille School where they were distributed to the neediest children.
Of course I can read Braille, but most business documents are not put into Braille for me, so I rely on Justine to read them to me.
I wander the landscape by a kind of historical braille, Gaia picking up the quiet rear.
He flung open the door and they both stood there looking towards the desk behind which Quentin sat, a Braille book open in front of him, his fingers busy on the raised dots.
Produced in braille for the Library of Congress, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, by Clovernook Printing House for the Blind, 2000.
Schmeissers, his hands moving like the hands of a man reading Braille, his black eyes looking far away.
This was climbing by Braille, running fingers and feet over the smooth surface looking for pockmarks and indentations, tapping spikes into hair-cracks, standing with the tip of a boot-toe balanced on a foothold slim as a goose-quill.
Ten pages of clauses in eight-point type: foreign rights, subsidiary rights, dramatizations, radio and television serialization, film rights, Braille editions, abridgments for Reader’s Digest, guarantees against libel suits, all disputes to be settled by Milan courts.
Schumacher, a book of simple stories for him to read and a Braille slate and stylus and some stiff paper so that he could learn to write.
They were having an intense and appropriately heated discussion on the problems of cold-spots (as evinced by the fact that their first attempts came out looking like braille roundels), and on the unfortunate instability of three poppadoms balanced together - caused not so much by the jerk they received when the turntable started up as by their movements while they cooked and swelled - but eventually my flatmates settled on the concept of standing the things up individually on the glass turntable, and so instigated what they termed a 'brain-storming session' in an attempt to find a suitable support mechanism.
It wasn't like the kids this afternoon, with their jokes about reading the waffle iron and what does a Playboy centerfold look like in Braille.