braille

adj

Etymology: Borrowed from French braille, named after French educator Louis Braille (1809–1852). The /eɪl/ seems to reflect a spelling pronunciation; French has /aj/ instead.

1. Of, relating to or written in braille.

name

1. Louis Braille

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from French braille, named after French educator Louis Braille (1809–1852). The /eɪl/ seems to reflect a spelling pronunciation; French has /aj/ instead.

1. A 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.”

verb

Etymology: Borrowed from French braille, named after French educator Louis Braille (1809–1852). The /eɪl/ seems to reflect a spelling pronunciation; French has /aj/ instead.

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

   “I played back my recorded notes and brailled them.”

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

2. to identify something by touch.