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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 856 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CHARADE , a See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of riddle, probably invented in See also:

France during the 18th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, in which a word of two or more syllables is divined by guessing and combining into one word (the See also:

ANSWER (derived from and, against, and the same root as swear)

answer) the different syllables, each of which is described, as an See also:

INDEPENDENT

independent word, by the giver of the charade. Charades may be either in See also:

PROSE

prose or See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse. Of poetic charades those by W. Mack-See also:

worth See also:

PRAED, WINTHROP MACKWORTH (1802–1839)

Praed are well known and excellent examples, while the following specimens in prose may suffice as illustrations. " My first, with the most rooted antipathy to a Frenchman, prides himself, whenever they meet, upon sticking See also:

close to his jacket; my second has many virtues, nor is its least that it gives its name to my first; my whole may I never catch!" " My first is See also:

COMPANY

company; my second shuns company; my third collects company; and my whole amuses company." The solutions are See also:

Tar-tar and Co-See also:

NUN (O. Eng. nunne, from Lat. nonnus, nonna, familiar terms for an old man or woman)

nun-See also:

DRUM (early forms drome or dromme, a word common to many Teut. languages, cf. Dan. tromme, Ger. Trommel: the word is ultimately the same as " trumpet," and is probably onomatopoeic in origin; it appears late in Eng. about the middle of the 16th century)

drum. The most popular See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of this amusement is the acted charade, in which the meaning of the different syllables is acted out on the See also:

STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage, the See also:

AUDIENCE (from Lat. audire, to hear)

audience being See also:

LEFT

left to guess each syllable and thus, combining the meaning of all the syllables, the whole word. A brilliant example of the acted charade is described in See also:

THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE (1811-1863)

Thackeray's Vanity See also:

FAIR

Fair.

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