tenue de ville
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.51 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Clothing suitable for an office or business setting, such as a business suit or skirt suit.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "No one would imagine that a man in an ice cream suit and a blue shirt, a tenue de ville as specified by his hostess, his arms full of liquor bottles, would have a bad conscience because he had failed to notice thunderheads on the horizon — but such was life in Llewellyn Group."
- "When it's needed, the priest, in tenue de ville, takes it from his pocket, unfolds it, kisses it, says a prayer, and then places it about his neck."
- "We have inherited only the remnants of this period: for example, in the form of uncertainty in dress etiquette that stresses us out when we read 'Tenue de Ville' on an invitation. What on earth am I going to wear, we hear ourselves saying?"