finger mask
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An ornament worn looped over the fingers during ceremonial dancing by various indigenous people of Alaska.
Example Sentences
- "She returned the finger mask to the Koniag dancer and held both hands out, palms up and eagle feather lying across them."
- "Inuit women traditionally adorned themselves with finger masks during special ceremonies. My mother recently decided to try to make herself a finger mask."
- "The smallest piece in the show, an Eskimo finger mask only a few centimeters high, was displayed next to a Dogon mask over five meters tall."