secretaire
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.32 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A kind of writing desk (a secretary).
Example Sentences
- "The table was covered with a confusion of papers, books, pamphlets, all heaped upon one another pell-mell; and an open secretaire against the wall, was chokeful of the same litter; manuscripts, books in yellow-paper covers, books in smart bindings, books in shabby bindings, stuffed in anyhow, one on the top of the other, sideways, longways, endways; a row of pigeon-holes gorged with papers in the background."
Etymology
From French secrétaire.
Origin
- Source language: French