oinochoe
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of oenochoe.
Example Sentences
- "Corinthian Late Geometric Light and Dark oinochoai have a wider neck […]"
- "The absence of brush marks and the disposition of glaze suggests that these oinochoae were glazed by dipping: the vessels would have been gripped between two fingers, held upside down, and immersed in glaze solution."
- "Moreover, there are some Rhodian oinochoae with a long neck and a trefoil mouth similar to that of the Pitane oinochoe, but with a different body."
- "Chios produced bird oinochoae covered with the same whitish or pale brown slip (Boardman 1967: 142 pl. 48.548) typical of south-Ionian bird oinochoae but not otherwise found on north-Ionian products."
- "Oinochoai were used in funerary rites by the larger part of the population; […]"
- "The 7th century trefoil oinochoai have a wider range of painted decoration including bichrome and banded (A. Ramage et al. 2021: HoB 408, HoB 481–483)."