pepper-and-salt

1. 1.

   a fabric woven with flecks of light and dark

   Broaderfabric

Questions about pepper-and-salt

What does pepper-and-salt mean?

pepper-and-salt means "a fabric woven with flecks of light and dark".

How many syllables are in pepper-and-salt?

pepper-and-salt has 4 syllables and divides as pep-pe-r-and--salt 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 pepper-and-salt a common word?

pepper-and-salt 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.