rhomboides
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "they would request us to endure still the rustling of their silken cassocks, and that we would burst our Midriffs, rather than laugh to see them under sail in all their lawn and sarcenet, their shrouds and tackle, with a Geometrical Rhomboides upon their heads"
- "In the firſt Courſe there was a Shoulder of Mutton, cut into an Æquilateral Triangle, a Piece of Beef into a Rhomboides, and a Pudding into a Cycloid."
- "Let the Square A, and the Rhomboides B, Fig. 47. serve for an Example of this, which I suppose at the Height D, equal to E, the same with d the Height of the Square A […]"
Etymology
From the Latin rhomboīdēs.