princesse
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.07 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Being or relating to a princesse dress.
Example Sentences
- "The princesse style still reigns supreme, but the modified Empire fashions are already exciting interest, and will unquestionably reign supreme six months from now."
- "Thus like a Nun, not like a Princeſſe borne, / Deſcended from the Royall Henries loynes: / Liue I inuironed in a houſe of ſtone, […]"
- "But gently could his passion entertaine, / Though she Love's princesse, he a lowly swaine."
- "Lewis the eleventh King of France is ſufficiently condemn’d by Poſterity for ſending Oliver his Barber in an Embaſſage to a Princeſſe, who ſo trimly diſpatch’d his buſineſſe, that he left it in the ſuddes, and had been well waſh’d in the river at Gant for his pains, if his feet had not been the more nimble."
Etymology
Borrowed from French princesse.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: princesse