Definitions for pekins

pekins pe·kin

Spelling: [pee-kin]
IPA: /ˈpiˈkɪn/

Pekins is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in pekins (eiknps).

Definitions for pekins

noun

  1. a silk fabric in which broad stripes of equal width and in various colors or weaves are alternated.
  2. one of a hardy breed of yellowish-white domestic ducks, raised originally in China.
  3. a city in central Illinois.

Origin of pekins

1775-85; French pékin; after Peking

Examples for pekins

Still your chances would be greater than they would be of reaching pekin.

It was not until they reached Taiyuen that they struck the road that led to pekin or Tientsin.

Another minute, and the Union Jack was floating over the walls of pekin.

We may say that it exists by sufferance at pekin, and nowhere else in the Empire.

They were invited to go with the party to pekin in the Blanchita, and accepted.

"pekin is not on navigable water, and we cannot go there in the ship," said he.

Some of the party made the trip to the loop-wall, near pekin.

I take tea in pekin with a spoon from Australia and a saucer from Dresden.

Your first impression must have been that pekin is the greatest city in the world.

The country round pekin has the beauty we associate with Italy.

Word Value for pekins
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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