稀 — rare, phenomenal, dilute (acid)

ピカソのような 画家がかは 稀まれだ。

Such painters as Picasso are rare.

主として稀代の悪女という評価が伝えられる。

Briefly speaking, she is criticized as a rare wicked woman of the history.

略式では比較的安価な白衣に差袴（神職の普段着と同様）、稀に夏には統一の浴衣（俗楽の浴衣ざらいに倣う）となる。

On informal occasions, relatively reasonable Byakue and Sashiko (equivalent to the ordinary clothes of a Shinto priest) are used, but in rare cases unified Yukata (Japanese summer kimono, following Zokugaku's run-through in Yukata) are used in the summer.