pebble-grained

1. 1.

   (of leather) having a rough surface as the result of being treated with a patterned roller

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Questions about pebble-grained

What does pebble-grained mean?

pebble-grained means "(of leather) having a rough surface as the result of being treated with a patterned roller".

How many syllables are in pebble-grained?

pebble-grained has 3 syllables and divides as peb-ble--grained under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is pebble-grained a common word?

pebble-grained is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.