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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

... North. When my wife became ill and I began to care for them I taught them to read braille. They picked it up very quickly, though they showed little continued interest in it. I read a number of books in the field of teaching handicapped children ..." He ...

— Now We Are Three • Joe L. Hensley

... was fifty years old Adrian Borlsover lost his sight. In a wonderfully short time he had adapted himself to the new conditions of life. He quickly learned to read Braille. So marvelous indeed was his sense of touch that he was still able to maintain his interest in botany. The mere passing of his long supple fingers over a flower was sufficient means for its identification, though occasionally he would use his lips. I have ...

— Famous Modern Ghost Stories • Various

... gave me an additional respect for those huge volumes of books written in Braille which he always carried about with him than I had ever felt before. When you and I are "fed up" with life and everybody surrounding us—and we all have these moods—we can escape open grousing by taking a long walk, or by seeing fresh people and fresh places, ...

— Over the Fireside with Silent Friends • Richard King

... worked out," Karl said, and opening one of the drawers of the library table, pulled out the model for the idea he had worked out for reading and writing in Braille. ...

— The Glory Of The Conquered • Susan Glaspell

... extent, a nocturnal beast. It is true he could not see by night as well as they, but that lack was largely recompensed for by the keenness of his scent and the highly developed sensitiveness of his other organs of perception. As the blind follow and interpret their Braille characters with deft fingers, so Tarzan reads the book of the jungle with feet and hands and eyes and ears and nose; each contributing its share to the quick and accurate translation ...

— Tarzan the Terrible • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... hour and a half of button-punching; the Braille-like symbols on the tape had to be retranslated, and even Merlin couldn't do that for itself. Merlin didn't ...

— The Cosmic Computer • Henry Beam Piper

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