braille
braille Lexical Profile
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• noun
A system of tactile writing and printing for blind or visually impaired people, in which characters are represented by patterns of raised dots arranged in cells of up to six dots that are read with the fingertips.
"All the elevator buttons in the public library are labeled in both standard print and braille."
The raised characters, symbols, or printed text produced using this tactile system.
"She ran her fingers lightly across the page to read the embossed braille."
• verb
To transcribe, emboss, or print text in braille.
"Volunteers helped braille the new textbooks before the start of the school year."
• Rhymes for braille
Word Origin & Etymology
Named after Louis Braille (1809–1852), the blind French educator who invented the tactile writing system in the 1820s, adapting an earlier military tactile code called 'night writing' developed by Charles Barbier.
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