maid-of-honour tart
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.22 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "It was a terribly hot day, and yet that week’s hostess had knocked herself out making maid-of-honour tarts and jam sponge in a kitchen that must have been over one hundred degrees."
- "[…] Joan Bennet’s Forces’ Favourites were ‘Raspberry buns, rock cakes, Australian flapjacks, maid-of-honour tarts, and doughnuts.[…]’"
- "It was over a maid-of-honour tart that her complacent mood took a turn for the worse – when Robert said in a low sympathetic voice, ‘How is Tessa?’"
- "He was home, or at least what he had so quickly come to regard as home, and the few women — not a man there — who had come to the burial had had their tea and boiled ham sandwiches, their home-made sausage rolls and their maid-of-honour tarts."