jaspé
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "He, too, like the advancing Guard and the ground on which he knelt, was patterned jaspé in black shadow and silvery white."
- "Jaspé is mainly used for curtains and bedspreads."
- "The stripes in the last fabric in this collection emulate jaspé. The tecnique used to produce real jaspé stripes is lengthy: the warps are measured, tied to resist the dye in some places, and then put into a dyebath and the dye fixed; the warp is then dried and taken to the loom."
Etymology
From French jaspé, past participle of jasper (“to colour motley, so as to imitate jasper”), from jaspe (“jasper”), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis).
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: jaspé, iaspis, ἴασπις