Queen Anneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

After Queen Anne of Great Britain (reigned 1702–1714).

固有名詞

Queen Anne

1. Queen Anne of Great Britain (reigned 1702–1714).
2. (often attributive) The style of architecture, furniture, etc. popular during the reign of Queen Anne.

   We inherited our Queen Anne chairs from my wife's family.

   • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 154:

     That mood of reverie appeared to dispense with physical unrests in Rita's strong body, relaxed in her Queen Anne armchair, but possibly those were a little used up in the day's activities, which were strenuous in this period of building up her stock, both as a necessity to her business and as evidence to refute an accusation of dealing only in Mrs Dibble's assets.

3. A small town in Maryland, United States.

派生語

• Queen Anne's Bounty
• Queen Anne's lace

Further reading

• “Queen Anne”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Queen Anne”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Queen Anne”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Queen Anne”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Queen Anne”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.