patent leathers
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.66 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Patent-leather shoes.
noun
Example Sentences
- "[…] his patent leathers were beautifully polished, and his hair curled by machinery."
- "What if the fertilizer is sometimes on the sidewalk, gravel walk, or front porch, and the first dark night finds it distributed by the Cinderellian slipper or patent leathers of some party bound pedestrian?"
- "Kids with well-worn gym shoes mingled with children wearing patent leathers."
Inflected Forms
patent-leathers (alternative)