pearly gates
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.85 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
Alternative letter-case form of pearly gates.
Example Sentences
- "When shall these eyes thy heaven-built walls / And pearly gates behold?"
- "This immense wealth; this gilded splendor; this profusion of luxury; this exemption from toil; this life of ease; this sea of plenty; aye, what of it all? Are the pearly gates of happiness and sweet content flung open to such suitors?"
- "The narrowness of the imagination of the old masters is generally depicted in their canvases. Heaven to them was a serious business of pearly gates, harps, halos, and aërial flights on ambient pale clouds."
- "I'd toss for pennies on the front steps of the New Jerusalem or set up a faro layout just outside the Pearly Gates."
- "By the time they got a doctor down / I was already dead / And I'll never understand why the man / Standing in the Pearly Gates said…"
- "When I'm at the pearly gates / This'll be on my videotape, my videotape"
Etymology
After the description in Revelation 21:21.