braille
pronunciation
How to pronounce braille in British English:
UK [breɪl]
How to pronounce braille in American English:
US [brel]
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- Verb:
- transcribe in Braille
Word Origin
- braille
- braille: [19] Braille, the system of printing in raised dots for the blind, was named after its inventor, the French teacher Louis Braille (1809–52), himself blind from the age of three. He perfected his set of letter and number signs in 1834, but the term did not appear in English until the early 1850s.
- Braille
- 1853, from Louis Braille (1809-1852), French musician and teacher, blind from age 3, who devised it c. 1830.
Example
- 1. And even provide the visually impaired a way to read content via braille .
- 2. The best part , we had our own library with books in braille .
- 3. This accounts for the heightened sense of touch in someone who uses her fingers to decipher braille .
- 4. In traditional braille , numbers and letters are represented by raised bumps in the paper of the page being read .
- 5. These imaging studies have been cited by some educators as proof that braille is essential for blind children 's cognitive development , as the visual cortex takes more than 20 percent of the brain .