Appaloosaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• Appaloosa

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌæ.pəˈluː.sə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌæ.pəˈlu.sə/
• 韻: -uːsə
• ハイフネーション: Ap‧pa‧loo‧sa

語源 1

From a +‎ Palouse +‎ -a. From the phrase "a Palouse horse", referring to the Palouse River near which they were first encountered by non-Native Americans. The river is named for the Palouse region.

名詞

appaloosa (countable and uncountable, plural appaloosas) (US)

1. (uncountable) A horse breed best known for its colorful spotted coat pattern.
2. (countable) A horse of this breed.

語源 2

Ellipsis of Appaloosa cat, itself an ellipsis of Apaloosa catfish, after the Appalousa people of Louisiana.

名詞

appaloosa (plural appaloosas)

1. (Southern US) A catfish.
   • 2005, David Francis, The Great Inland Sea, page 141:

     A big fish wends its way towards the shape the light makes, stops and sucks at air. Mottled brown and black, with a pink, appaloosa mouth.

   • 2008, Harry Noble, Me and Burnice: A Simpler Time, page 167:

     On a two-day camp out at Red Bluff on the Angelina River in East Texas, we had out twelve trotlines, fishing for mud, appaloosa, blue and channel catfish.

参照

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “appaloosa”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “appaloosa”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “appaloosa, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.