tracklement
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A savoury condiment (for example a mustard, relish or chutney), especially one served with meat.
British usage
Example Sentences
- "preserves, conserves and homemade tracklements are sold at"
- "nestled together in a cunning arrangement, ornamented by the tracklements she had labored to obtain for her friends"
- "The content of these stores, as well as wine, would mostly be preserved foodstuffs and tracklements."
Etymology
Coined in its current sense by the English cookery writer Dorothy Hartley in her book Food in England in 1954, but probably derived from a similar dialect word with variant spellings (e.g. tranklement, tanchiment) used before that date across North and Central England and meaning "ornaments, trinkets; bits of things".
Usage
- British usage