BRAILLE

Braille

1 |bra¯l| Braille, Louis(1809–52), French educator. Blind from the age of 3, he had developed his own system of raised-point reading and writing by the age of 15. His system was officially adopted two years after his death. Braille 2 noun a form of written language for the blind, in which characters are represented by patterns of raised dots that are felt with the fingertips. verb [ trans. ]