balenciaga
/bəˌlɛnsiˈɑːɡə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A product of the Balenciaga brand, especially shoes or a handbag.
Example Sentences
- "On Saturday night a dinner was held for Nicolas Ghesquiere of Balenciaga beneath Tiepolo’s hallucinatory and superpopulated ceiling at the Palazzo Clerici."
- "Balenciaga's couture openings are not gala affairs packed with friends, but tense performances where everyone concentrates madly and in silence to take in the fast-paced show."
- "Mona Bismarck took eighty-eight numbers in 1963, fairly typical except for the year when many of her clothes were in a train wreck and she ordered one hundred fifty Balenciagas all at once."
- "Cigarettes and tiny liquor bottles / Just what you’d expect inside her new Balenciaga"
- "I like those Balenciagas (Those) / The ones that look like socks"
Etymology
Word Breakdown
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Inflected Forms
Balenciagas (plural)