visé
/viːˈzeɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A municipality in the province of Liège, Wallonia, Belgium.
Example Sentences
- "A minister cannot make any direct charge for giving or viséing a passport (though his porter always takes care to ask for something), whereas the Russian consul always charges a dollar banco for every visé."
- "[…] promising her that he would not print a word to which her approval should not be expressly given. She should countersign every page before it went to press, and none should leave the house without her visé."
- "[…] unable to be abroad after ten at night, or to carry a gun, or to remove into another district without a written pass which must be visé on reaching a police-station."
- "Russian consuls everywhere have been instructed to visé passports of geologists presenting membership cards, which will also facilitate matters at the frontier."
- "Therefore, with my passport properly viséd and my papers all in order, I one night left Hull for Stockholm by the weekly Wilson service."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: visé