braille

braille

noun, often capitalized \ˈbrā(ə)l\

Definition of BRAILLE

: a system of writing for the blind that uses characters made up of raised dots

—braille transitive verb, brailled braill·ing

Biographical Note for BRAILLE

Braille \brȧy\ Louis (1809–1852), French inventor and teacher. Braille was blind and while at a school for the blind in Paris met Charles Barbier. Barbier had devised a system of writing for the blind in which simple messages coded in dots were embossed on cardboard. In 1824 Braille started work on adapting this system, developing a system in which a six-dot code represented letters and characters. He published treatises on his system in 1829 and 1837.

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