watchet
/ˈwæt͡ʃɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A harbour town and civil parish with a town council in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST0743).
Example Sentences
- "I was going by his Highneſs's order to my Lady Iſabellas chamber: She lies in the watchet'-coloured chamber, on the right-hand, one pair of ſtairs."
- "On the islet appeared a beautiful woman, clad in a watchet-coloured silken mantle, bound with a broad girdle, inscribed with characters like the phylacteries of the Hebrews."
- "They him disarm'd, and spredding on the ground / Their watchet mantles frindgd with siluer round, / They softly wipt away the gelly blood […]"
- "Firſt, the hethermoſt, in the changeable blew, and greene robe, is the commendably-faſhioned gallant, Evcosmos; […] The fourth, in watchet tinſell, is the kind, and truly benefique, Evcolos."
- "Shee, in a watchet weed, with manie a curious wave / Which as a princelie gift great Amphitrite gave"
- "Who stares, in Germany, at watchet eyes?"
Etymology
From Middle English wachet, waget; compare French vaciet (“whortleberry”), Latin vaccīnium (“blueberry”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: wachet