millineric
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Mrs X⸺ sat in front of me, and there was a wreath on her bonnet so provokingly like the real flowers that I could look at nothing else and think of nothing else but the wonderful skill attained to in their manufacture; my thoughts danced a jig half over the world, started and kept in motion by that millineric creation."
- "The “Frances Cleveland” hat shown at Ridley’s is simply lovely![…]It was purchased by a “brown[-]ish blond” whose complexional requirements were nobly met by the “combine” of garnet and sky-blue, and was pronounced a piece of millineric perfection."
- "At Burns & Shugert’s there is a vast aggregation of rare and beautiful things, from fine underwear to elegant cloaks; from millineric marvels of all sizes, shapes and stuffs, to the daintiest boots."
- "Indeed so general will be the display of millineric colors and combinations that the day should be known as Bonnet Day in the fashionable calendar."
- "Brown shades have a slight millineric prestige."
- "The way to settle the shape question is to adopt the arrangement of hair best suited to the face, then make millineric selections in accordance therewith."
Etymology
From milliner + -ic.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more millineric (comparative)
most millineric (superlative)