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Meanings of Braille in English

Portuguese
louis braille
Catalan
louis braille
Spanish
louis braille

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)

        louis braille
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        Examples for "Louis Braille"
        Examples for "Louis Braille"
        1
        She is ready to tell the story of Louis Braille.
        The Irish Times
        2
        Braille characters, developed by Louis Braille in 1821, are created by a pattern of raised dots.
        Wired
        3
        Marking the 200th anniversary of Louis Braille's birth: putting the case for Braille and accessible website technology.
        Radio NZ
        4
        Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Louis Braille's birth, and the coded system of raised dots that bears his name.
        Radio NZ
        5
        Lisette Wesseling explores Louis Braille's adaptation of his six-dot reading and writing system for the blind to represent the language of music.
        Radio NZ
        Usage of Braille in English
        1
        The reader works in the same way that Braille makes words readable.
        Wired
        2
        Documents are then printed by a special appliance that embosses the Braille.
        Wired
        3
        Refreshable Braille displays, a peripheral for the computer, have been more successful.
        Wired
        4
        A Braille level of literacy isn't achievable through this method, however.
        Wired
        5
        He improved his Braille and his English & learned to type.
        The new yorker
        6
        Fianna Fail has produced summaries of its manifesto on tape and in Braille.
        The Irish Times
        7
        Users can print out the pages, which are numbered in Braille.
        Wired
        8
        She's the Braille Awareness consultant at the Foundation of the Blind.
        Radio NZ
        9
        We hypothesized that somatosensory perceptual consolidation occurs more rapidly in proficient Braille readers.
        Pubmed
        10
        It comes with an eight-dot Braille keyboard or a QWERTY-style keyboard.
        Wired
        11
        Like he was trying to get vibrations or read the file in Braille.
        Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
        12
        Gingerly, I explored my find, gloved fingers reading the anatomical Braille.
        Grave Secrets
        13
        I move my hands over them like they're a large-print version of Braille.
        Beat the reaper: a novel
        14
        A few inches more and, with trembling fingers, I Braille-read the man's features.
        Bones of the Lost
        15
        It has been translated into French, Spanish, German, Hindustani, and Braille.
        Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization
        16
        At one point, the reader traces Braille to see James' associations with the words.
        Wired
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        Translations for Braille
        Portuguese
        louis braille
        Braille through the time
        Braille across language varieties
        United States of America
        Common