smallclothes
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Knee-length breeches, worn especially in the 18th century.
Example Sentences
- "Even fashions, otherwise convenient, as the trousers that have so long taken place of smallclothes, often perhaps owe their continuance to some general defect . . ."
- "'Only look at his jacket, mother!' cried Annie; 'and a shillingsworth gone from his small-clothes!'"
- "One hand slid up her thigh and underneath her smallclothes."
- "Are red socks a secret handshake, a mark of Etonhood, of an allegiance to the place both claimed and disclaimed? And having seen one pair I'm noticing them all over the place, a conspiracy of smallclothes."