fascinator
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.76 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fascinating person or thing.
Example Sentences
- "A more repellent personality would be hard to imagine, and yet Hedda Gabler is one of the eternal fascinators of the world stage."
- "Westminster Abbey was peppered with everything from neat pillbox hats to netted fascinators."
- "Why, for example, was Lady Gaga the first act? Surrounded by pink ostrich feathers and wearing a fascinator that looked like a feather quill atop her head, she put on her best French accent to sing Mon truc en plumes (originally by Zizi Jeanmaire) but it still looked like a scrappy, tacky, riverbank cabaret by an American pop star."
- "On a recent night when I visited, a group of girls had taken over an entire section, all of them wearing black fascinators as if attending a funeral. The hostess explained that it was a young woman named Mallory’s “RIP to my 20s” birthday dinner."
Etymology
Etymology tree English fascinate Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin -ātor Old French -eorbor. Middle English -our ▲ Latin -torlbor. English -or English fascinator From fascinate + -or.