verandahとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /vəˈɹændə/

名詞

verandah (plural verandahs)

1. (archaic or Australia and New Zealand) Alternative spelling of veranda
   • 1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volumes (please specify |volume=III or IV), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:

     […] and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the Mansion House, or look an adieu to the Cottage, with its black, dripping, and comfortless verandah, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart.

   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 104:

     Therefore the safe return of the Roper party was the usual topic of our nightly conclaves in the verandah.

   • 1908, Charles W. Hattersley, Uganda by Pen and Camera, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States: Union Press, page 36:

     It is almost impossible to say what the heat is in the sun, but in the shade of the verandah it rarely registers more than 80° to 85° , and inside the house it is usually in the daytime 70° to 72°, and at night in the house about an average of 68°.

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/7/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎:

     There was no moon, only stars set brilliantly in the soft black onyx of the sky : a black night and very silent on Cimiez ; and a black and silent prospect from the verandah […]

   • 1953, Theodore Sturgeon, More than human:

     We didn't eat in the dining room no more. There was a side porch, a sort of verandah thing with glass windows, with a door to the dining room and a door to the kitchen, and we all ate there after that.

   • 2008, “The Peppertree”, in Friars Guide to New Zealand Accommodation for the Discerning Traveller 2009‎, Auckland: Hodder Moa, page 150:

     Constructed from the native timbers rimu, kauri, or matai, the interior has been refurbished in sympathy with the era of the home. The five bedrooms are individually designed, all with private balconies or verandahs.