labretifery
/ˌleɪbrəˈtɪfəri/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In Africa labretifery is quite common, and varies from tribe to tribe."
- "They include labretifery, tattooing the chin of adult women, certain uses of masks, a certain style of conventionalizing objects, the use of conventional signs as hieroglyphics, [...] and of artistic representations connected with their common religious or mythological ideas."
- "Labretifery occurred over a wide distribution from the Kuriles to southern British Columbia in the late prehistoric period."