galloonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɡəˈluːn/
• 韻: -uːn

名詞

galloon (countable and uncountable, plural galloons)

1. A braided trimming with bullion thread, used on men's coats in the eighteenth century, on women's apparel in the nineteenth, and on such furnishings as draperies or cushions.
   • 1918, Ivan Bunin, translated by Abraham Yarmolinsky, The Gentleman from San Francisco‎:

     And when the "Atlantis" had finally entered the port and all its many-decked mass leaned against the quay, and the gang-plank began to rattle heavily, — what a crowd of porters, with their assistants, in caps with golden galloons, what a crowd of various boys and husky ragamuffins with pads of colored postal cards attacked the Gentleman from San Francisco, offering their services!

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 194:

     His hair is tied back with a bit of silver galloon, and he is dressed with panache in a blue velvet jacket, white silk hose, buckled pumps.

派生語

• gallooned

派生した語

• → Irish: galún

Further reading

• galloon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia