rosewoodenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Formed as rosewood +‎ -en ‎(suffix forming adjectives denoting material composition), translating the Dutch rozenhouten.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊzwʊdən/, [ˈɹəʊzwʊdn̩]

形容詞

rosewooden ‎(not comparable)

1. (まれに, nonstandard) Made of rosewood.
   • 1919, L.M.H. van Overveen (translator), Louis Couperus (author), “Translation of an excerpt from Extaze” in English Studies I, № 2, page 16:

     Dolf van Attema…was waiting in the small front drawing-room, walking amidst the rosewooden pieces of furniture and the sofas for two…with the three or four large strides with which he seemed to measure the narrowness of the apartment over and over again.