pur sang
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.85 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Beyond doubt or being a model example; the ne plus ultra or epitome; the definitive.
Example Sentences
- "the Art Deco painter pur sang"
- "The Duke of Punch is too true an Aristocrat, pur sang, to be afraid of avowing his liking for anything […]"
- "For it is only the old-fashioned sort, not girls of the period pur sang, that marry for love, or put the husband before the banker."
- "Three points about this unobtrusive person showed promptly to the exercised eye that he was not a Row man pur sang. First, an irrepressible wrinkle or two in the waist of his frock-coat—denoting that he had not damned his tailor sufficiently to drive that tradesman up to the orthodox high pressure of cunning workmanship."
- "But she had the grand reach forward! I never saw such a line! / Smooth-bored, clean-run, from her fiddle head with its dainty ear half-cock, / Hard-bit, pur sang, from her overhang to the heel of her off hind sock."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: pur-sang