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Cheshire cat. He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of any one who shows his teeth and gums in laughing. The phrase appears again in print in John Wolcot's pseudonymous Peter Pindar's Pair of Lyric Epistles (1792): "Lo, like a Cheshire cat our court will grin." The phrase also appears in print in William Makepeace Thackeray's novel The Newcomes ...
A crime lord called Big Brother summons Cheshire Cat from Los Angeles to help him against rival crime lord Baron. [1] Working as an informant, he tells Big Brother where to find Power Man. [2] Cheshire Cat follows Luke Cage and informs Big Brother that he survived his fight with Chemistro. Power Man later storms Big Brother's hideout, where he ...
Cheshire Cat (Thursday Next series), a fictional cat in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next novels; Cheshire Cat (comics), a fictional character; Cheshire Cat idiom or opaque pointer, a computer programming technique; Cheshire Cat Eating House, a cafe in the Widows' Almshouses, Nantwich, Cheshire, England; Quantum Cheshire cat, a phenomenon in ...
Cheshire makes non-speaking appearances in the fifth season of Teen Titans. This version is a member of the Brotherhood of Evil with the ability to turn invisible save for her mask's eyes and grin, akin to the Cheshire Cat. The Teen Titans incarnation of Cheshire appears in the "New Teen Titans" segment of DC Nation Shorts.
Midnight Commander using box-drawing characters in a terminal emulator. Box-drawing characters, also known as line-drawing characters, are a form of semigraphics widely used in text user interfaces to draw various geometric frames and boxes.
One of the most fundamental elements of art is the line. An important feature of a line is that it indicates the edge of a two-dimensional (flat) shape or a three-dimensional form. A shape can be indicated by means of an outline, and a three-dimensional form can be indicated by contour lines. [1]
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Lewis Carroll popularised the Cheshire Cat, but the idea has a much earlier origin. A 16th-century carving of a grinning cat at St Wilfrid's, Grappenhall , near the author's birthplace, might have been an inspiration.