jerkinとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɜː.kɪn/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɝ.kɪn/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)kɪn

名詞

jerkin (plural jerkins)

1. (historical) A type of men's garment popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: a close-fitting collarless jacket, with or without sleeves.
   • 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto First. The Castle.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza VIII, page 30:

     [T]wenty yeomen, two and two, / In hosen black, and jerkins blue, / With falcons broider'd on each breast, / Attended on their lord's behest.

2. A sleeveless jacket, usually leather; a long waistcoat.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 32:

     A tall and very good-looking kid in a jerkin came out of the store and rode the coupé off around the corner and came back walking, his glistening black hair plastered with rain.

   • 1952, Daphne Du Maurier, “Monte Verità”, in The Apple Tree:

     I booked a room at the small hotel and deposited my luggage there. I bought myself strong boots, a pair of breeches, a jerkin, and a couple of shirts. Then I turned my back upon the town and climbed.

派生語

参考

• bodice
• doublet
• gherkin

語源 2

名詞

jerkin (plural jerkins)

1. Alternative form of gyrkin.

参考

• jerkin the gherkin (etymologically unrelated)

Further reading

• jerkin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• jinker