mustard-plaster
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "The mustard-plasters (whether first or second in time) are only to stay on long enough to redden, not blister, the skin."
- "If in a paper on the value of home remedies, however, you offer as fact the statement that mustard-plasters are good for curing colds, you will have to cite a wide and representative sampling of incidents as well as testimony from respected medical authorities to convince your audience."
- "An intelligent, educated, proud, freedom-loving man, in the image of God, has no other way out save to go as a medico into a filthy, stupid, miserable hole of a town —and all his life consists of cupping glasses, leeches, mustard-plasters!"