braille

plural brailles · alternative Braille

1. countableuncountableA system of writing in which letters and some combinations of letters are represented by raised dots arranged in three or four rows of two dots each and are read by the blind and partially sighted using the fingertips.

   Another difficulty which causes literature in braille to remain scarce is the cumbersomeness of the process of producing braille books.

   1963, S. C. Ashcroft, Freda Henderson, Programmed Instruction in Braille, Stanwix House, →ISBN, page 6

present singular third person brailles · participle present brailling · participle past brailled · past brailled · alternative Braille

1. To write in, or convert into, the braille writing system.

   I played back my recorded notes and brailled them.

   1 more example

   the sponsorship statement on respondent's brailled volumes [...] He admittedly had no knowledge of just how respondent's book [...] came to be brailled

   1967, Carlton Fredericks, Federal Trade Commission Decisions, volume 71, page 237

2. broadlyinformalto identify something by touch.

alternative Braille

1. not comparableOf, relating to or written in braille.

1. Louis Braille

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of braille.

1. not comparableAlternative letter-case form of braille.