pasteboard
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks."
- "He handed Larry two slips of pasteboard, theater tickets, as was evident at first glance."
- "To many, a railway ticket is but an uninteresting bit of pasteboard, which must be purchased before a journey is undertaken, and once obtained, may be stowed away in a convenient pocket and forgotten, until a watchful railway official requests its production."
- "“We shall only have to leave our pasteboards, Arthur.” He used the word ‘pasteboards,’ having heard it from some of the ingenuous youth of the nobility about town, and as a modern phrase suited to Pen’s tender years."
- "[…] he no sooner learnt that the British officer in command had sent in his pasteboard, than he instantly returned the visit […]"
- "Peter called on the Pierces, only to find them out, and as no notice was taken of his pasteboard, he drew his own inference, and did not repeat the visit."