Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tragic carpet

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English

Syllables
trag-ic -car-pet
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The green cloth that was spread on the stage in seventeenth century plays for the actors to "die" on so they would not dirty their clothes.

Questions

What does tragic carpet mean?
The green cloth that was spread on the stage in seventeenth century plays for the actors to "die" on so they would not dirty their clothes.

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