Crossword-Solution: CRAIE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Craie | n. | See Crare. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CRAIE | anagram | ACIER, AREIC, CAIRE, CAREI, CERIA, CIERA, ERICA, ICARE, RAICE, RICEA |
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| French chalk | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AECMEZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CRAIE (5)
The archives show that it was from flocks of sheep belonging to _Roche Craie_ that the wool was taken to send as a present to Queen Elizabeth of England, in return for her gift of nine pieces of cannon to the downtrodden Huguenots.
The d'Ochtès were not overlooked by the cruel queen, but a guard was sent to _Roche Craie_ headed by a zealous Jesuit.
The soldiers, taking it as a sign from heaven, spared the young heir of _Roche Craie_; otherwise, the race would have been exterminated on that dreadful day.
These phosphates are of different qualities, and are found, some in layers near the surface in pockets forming the richest class, and containing from 45 to 65 per cent of phosphate, and some in the form of a friable phosphatic rock, the so-called _craie-grise_ (phosphatic chalk), containing from 25 to 35 per cent of phosphate of lime.
The word is usually explained as derived from _chrétien_ (Christian) in the sense of "innocent." But _Christianus_ (which appears in the Lombard _cristanei_; compare the Savoyard _innocents_ and _gens du bon dieu_) is probably a translation of the older _cretin_, and the latter is probably connected with _creta_ (_craie_)--a sallow or yellow-earthy complexion being a common mark of cretinism.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1983).