What does schmatte mean?

schmatte

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"A night in April. We are dressing for a dinner party, I in a black skirt with a porthole over which I have dropped an empire-waisted blue schmatte. Schmatte, along with "merch" for merchandise and "matchy-matchy," as in "That sweater and skirt are too matchy-matchy," is among the words I have picked up at Mlle."

schmattes (plural)

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