bewaistcoated
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Synonym of waistcoated.
Example Sentences
- "The court itself, with its broad pavement and two lines of large houses, is not without a certain dignity. A very small amount of imagination could easily fill it with grave, bewigged and bewaistcoated merchants; ladies with powdered heads, patches and flowered damask gowns; sedan-chairs, link-boys, and all that goes with the date on the oblong tablet, set in relief on a square stone on one of the walls, where one may read, in characters such as one sees in a Tonson edition of The Spectator—[…]"
- "No longer are visions of brisk streetcar executives conjured up, but the bewhiskered, bewaistcoated Councillor, full of proper civic pride at the ordered tidiness of his Corporation Tramways with their scroll-festooned standards, ruby half lights, polished mahogany and very substantial depot architecture."
- "To my left, a voice was rumbling querulously, emanating from a grizzled and bewaistcoated, badger-like figure."
Etymology
From be- + waistcoat + -ed.