Cardan grilles

A form of Cardan grille — A sheet of card or thin metal, etc., used in composing secret messages. The words of the message are written through a number of holes cut arbitrarily in the sheet, and the remaining paper is then filled with irrelevant words to disguise it.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of Cardan grille
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