Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

broadloom

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.16 in modern English

Syllables: broad-loom
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

noun

A carpet woven on a wide loom.

adj

Woven on a wide loom, and so needing fewer seams.

Example Sentences

"And away across the Søren Kierkegaard broadloom he lurched, battling shifts in the horizontal which had grown more pronounced since the ship left New York Harbor."

Etymology

From broad + loom.

Inflected Forms

broadlooms (plural)

Questions

What does broadloom mean?: A wide loom.
Where does broadloom come from?: From broad + loom.

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