pencil-skirted
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.54 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "High hats easily fit in with high necks, slim sleeves, pencil-skirted suits, straight box coats, long gloves and higher shoes."
- "The new short coats for the season of 1945-46 show up to sparkling advantage in bright jewels colors over a pencil-skirted suit in black or navy."
- "More fun than sun in a mirror… pencil-skirted tunic suit dress a-sparkle with bright ‘gold’ nailheads."
- "Secondly, their volume also plays a part in creating new-season proportions, which essentially boil down to a larger top over a narrow bottom; a way of making a blouse and pencil-skirted outfit feel like it’s coming from 2011 rather than 1992."
- "Anyway, G. Peck lifted the quality of 1959 South Yarra, with its population of retired colonels, their blue-rinsed ladies and woolly-coated small dogs, the smart young narrow-lapelled, broad-minded advertising executives, the pencil-skirted, stiletto-heeled secretaries tok-tokking along the pavements."
- "Take away those chauffeurs, those gasoline coupons, those platoons of pencil-skirted, lozenge-spectacled assistants."
Etymology
From pencil skirt + -ed.