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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An alphabet in which the letters are denoted by knots of various forms and combinations made in a string: used by the blind.
- noun An alphabet in which the letters are denoted by knots of various forms and combinations made in a string: used by the blind.
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Then, with his mother’s assistance, he learned the letters of the string-alphabet, which is used in some of the Institutions for the Blind, in Europe.
True Stories of History and Biography Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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