Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mink coat

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.12 in modern English

Syllables: mink -coat
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fur coat made from the fur of the mink, symbolic of membership in a social class of wealthy people.

Example Sentences

"We think we will in no time parlay our abundant love into abundant riches of the mink coat type, so it comes as a major surprise that we could be so poor... for so long."
"Richard Nixon attempted to clear himself of charges that he had a tapped a secret slush fund by exploiting that symbol of decadent luxury, the mink coat. His wife, Nixon boasted, did not own a mink coat, but rather she owned 'a respectable Republican cloth coat...'"

Etymology

Compound of mink + coat.

Inflected Forms

mink coats (plural)

Synonyms

mink

Questions

What does mink coat mean?: A fur coat made from the fur of the mink, symbolic of membership in a social class of wealthy people.
Where does mink coat come from?: Compound of mink + coat.

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