bespokeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /bɪˈspəʊk/
• (General American) IPA: /bəˈspoʊk/
• ハイフネーション: be‧spoke
• 韻: -əʊk

形容詞

bespoke (not comparable) (chiefly Ireland, UK)

1. Made or done in a way adjusted to the needs of a specific person or group (e.g., customer, health care patient, do-it-yourselfer), and thus specialized and, in some cases, unique.

   Synonym: custom

   Near-synonyms: custom-made, tailored, tailor-made, custom-built, purpose-built; see also Thesaurus:custom-made

   • 1983 March 7, Kurt Andersen, “Her Majesty in Mellowland”, in Time:

     Marc Valeric, a Beverly Hills milliner, sold 125 bespoke hats in two weeks to women desperate to dress properly for royal receptions.

   • 2001, Robin Osborne, “Why Did Athenian Pots Appeal to the Etruscans?”, in World Archaeology‎, volume 33, number 2, Taylor & Francis, →JSTOR, page 278:

     Were Athenian pots bespoke, bearing images requested by Etruscans?

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 10, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:

     People gathered round, since it was something of an event, their MP, in his bespoke pinstripe and red tie, clutching an old Wellington boot and about to hurl it through the air.

   • 2012 August 1, Ed Yong, “Replacement Parts”, in The Scientist‎, archived from the original on 30 August 2012:

     … others are attempting the more ambitious feat of engineering bespoke human organs from scratch.

   • 2016, The Tube: Going Underground, season 1, episode 6:

     There are 436 escalators in the London Underground, and every one is totally bespoke.

   • 2017, “Elements Part 2: Bespoken For”, in Adventure Time:

     You need to get a nice bespoked suit. "Bespoke" means i's custom-made to fit your specific dimensions and emphasize what's flattering about your shape.

   • 2024, Dan Olson, 1:06:09 from the start, in I Don't Know James Rolfe‎:

     [I]t becomes a game of parkour just to change a battery, and when you’re working mostly alone that gets frustrating really fast, and when you get frustrated you get impulsive, and those impulses lead to half measure solutions, and those half measure solutions accumulate into a whole network of bespoke inefficiencies that you just live with because the process of unravelling them feels just so... big.

2. Relating to someone who makes custom-made products, especially clothing items.

   a bespoke tailor

使用する際の注意点

• Primarily used for tailoring, now also used more generally, as an alternative term for custom-made, notably for software, as in a “bespoke solution”.

派生語

動詞

bespoke

1. simple past of bespeak
2. (archaic) past participle of bespeak

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