Noun: braille breyl
- A point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals
"She read the novel in braille, her fingers moving swiftly across the pages"
- French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852)
- Louis Braille
Sounds like: brail
Derived forms: brailled, brailling, brailles, Brailles
Type of: educator, pedagog [US], pedagogue, point system, transcribe, transliterate
Encyclopedia: Braille, Louis