nail-polished
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Let the swain of our times undertake the chin fringe that Grandpa wore when he courted Grandma and his lipsticked, nail-polished, dieting and bepowdered fraulein would give him his choice of barbershop, the sideshow and the air."
- "Meanwhile, lip-rouged and nail-polished girls, some attired in abbreviated shorts, sent gasoline sales rocketing upward 50 per cent at Oakland and Long Beach."
- "No debutante ever gave more serious attention to clothes, hair, complexion and accessories than did the more than 60 men who strutted, gambolled, waltzed, hobbled or glided down the center aisle of the Neville High school auditorium, Tuesday night, to the strains of Mendelssohn’s wedding march rippling from the nail-polished fingers of lovely Leontine Hammond."
Etymology
From nail polish + -ed.