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ratteen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
rat-teen
IPA
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A thick, coarse, woolen twill.

Archaic; Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From French ratine, from Old French rastin, from Latin raster (“to scrape”), ultimately from Latin rādere (“rash”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

ratteens (plural) ratine (alternative) rateen (alternative)

Questions

What does ratteen mean?
A thick, coarse, woolen twill.
Where does ratteen come from?
It is traced to French.

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