zephyrette
/ˌzɛfəˈɹɛt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An on-board hostess on the California Zephyr train, which originally operated between 1949 and 1970.
Example Sentences
- "Spread zephyrettes with quince jelly and sprinkle with chopped English walnut meat. Place a zephyrette over each and press together."
- "Mix with the whites of the eggs, and spread on zephyrette biscuits or on thin slices of bread."
- "In tin packages costing twenty-five cents each the company offers afternoon teas, butter thins, ginger wafers, graham wafers, unsweetened grahams, oatmeals, pilot wafers, square saltines and zephyrettes."
- "As the liquor flows from the oysters, dip it out with a spoon and keep them as dry as possible, until they are plump. Sprinkle them with salt and pepper and add two tablespoonfuls of butter. Lay each one on a zephyrette and pour the liquor over."
- "The storm, however, subsided ; and subsequently I discovered, upon music and the opera becoming the topics of conversation, that Mr. Nobody rivalled Paganini on the violin ; and believed that his lady danced better than the zephyrette, Taglioni; and that Herz, Hummel, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, and Weber, were, in comparison, beaten hollow by one of his little sisters."
- "... and then the battles and struggles of these animals, the injuries inflicted on them by each other, and yet their continued existence: and, finally, this mingled, fluttering, hurting, killing, caressing, reproducing life becomes an infinite breath of life, wherein the individual life flies like a tiny zephyrette ."
Etymology
From zephyr + -ette.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌzɛfəˈɹɛt/
- British English: /ˌzɛfəˈɹɛt/