empetalled
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Covered with petals or petal-like objects.
adj
Resembling petals. (of a large number of similar objects)
Example Sentences
- "Innocent billows on the strand Leave a crystal over sand, Whose thin ebbing soon is crossed Of a crystal foam-enmossed, Variegating silvergrey Shell-empetalled sand in play:"
- "There did she secretly also tender to the young Athenian the empetalled garland of her love, and all the girls dancing flung wreaths of flowers over the heads of the statues lining the way […]"
- "Two young and naked men, the unchanging under faith and thought, yet not of the cycle, threshing, making the bed shake, dislodging with a thrust ecstatic foot a pot with flowers of the season from its stand, so that dancing soles became wet and empetalled."
- "In its beauty and design that vision of the soaring stands, the pattern of forty thousand empetalled faces, the velvet and unalterable geometry of the playing field, and the small lean figures of the players, set there, lonely, tense and waiting in their places, bright, desperate solitary atoms encircled by that huge wall of nameless faces, is incredible."
Etymology
From em- + petal + -ed.