burglaress
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But in men these virtues are comparatively unimportant, and the one supreme and cardinal virtue of a Ceres man is that he should never have had the tip of his nose touched by a woman. A man with an untouched nose may be proud, arrogant, and cruel, and yet be admired; but a man who is known to have had the tip of his nose touched by a woman is sent to associate with murderesses and burglaresses, and despised even by them."
- "The last three months of my stay in San Francisco I cut out all the pictures of pretty girls from three newspapers. They included all kinds of women—society, club, athletic, college, high-brow, low-brow; highway-women, burglaresses, forgeresses and murderesses."
- "Along with ethnic diversity came the initial wave of lock-picking and safe-cracking burglaresses. The first female mob bosses had begun ruling their streets with an iron fist, buying, selling, and even marrying their way up the violently masculine hierarchy of the Japanese underworld."