neck-kerchief
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.12 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Never did Neck-kerchief become me ſo well as this Chain (ſaid Alice Drivers) when they faſtened her to the Stake to be burnt."
- "He was dressed in a suit of black clothes which were rather rusty and dry too, and rather short in the sleeves and legs; and he had a white neck-kerchief on that was not over-clean. I did not, and do not, suppose that this neck-kerchief was all the linen he wore, but it was all he showed or gave any hint of."
- "The women wear neck-kerchieves spreading over their shoulders, and ruffs, but their aprons show that they are shop-keepers rather than gentry; their high-crowned felt hats are of the mid-Elizabethan fashion."
- "Dogs sporting Sunday best of bright pink shorts, T-shirts, neck-kerchiefs and even tutus crowded into an adjoining room after the service to lap up their owners’ leftover donuts."