Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tricoteuse

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tri-co-teuse
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A woman who knits; used especially of those who knitted at meetings and at executions during the French Revolution.

Example Sentences

"Sitting in the courtroom […], their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times — the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution."

Etymology

Borrowed from French tricoteuse.

Inflected Forms

tricoteuses (plural)

Questions

What does tricoteuse mean?: A woman who knits; used especially of those who knitted at meetings and at executions during the French Revolution.
Where does tricoteuse come from?: Borrowed from French tricoteuse.

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