guinguette
/ɡæŋˈɡɛt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Our walks, tete-a-tete, on the outside of the city, where I magnificently spent eight or ten sous in each guinguette."
- "So again, a Tyrolese evening dance, though the costume, and the step, and the music may be different, is the same in feeling as that of the Parisian guinguette; but follow the Tyrolese into their temples, and their deep devotion and beautiful though superstitious reverence will be found very different from any feeling exhibited during a mass in Notre-Dame."
Etymology
Borrowed from French guinguette.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: guinguette