Puccoonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Powhatan poughkone. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Doublet of poke.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /pʌˈkuːn/

名詞

puccoon (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 puccoons)

1. (countable, botany) Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, such as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum, Lithospermum hirtum and Lithospermum canescens.
   • 2002, Stephen G Ausband, Byrd's line, page 62:

     The puccoon dye was used as a sort of body rouge; it rubbed off on English linen quite easily, as Byrd's men discovered.

2. (uncountable) The red pigment (dye) obtained from these plants.
   • 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, quoted by Kupperman in 1988, page 61:

     their head and shoulders [were] painted red, with Oyle and Pocones mingled together, which Scarlet-like colour made an exceeding handsome shew [...].

派生語

• Canada puccoon (Sanguinaria canadensis)
• Carolina puccoon (Lithospermum caroliniense)
• fringed puccoon (Lithospermum incisum)
• golden puccoon (Lithospermum caroliniense)
• hairy puccoon (Lithospermum caroliniense)
• hoary puccoon (Lithospermum canescens)
• narrow-leaved puccoon (Lithospermum incisum)
• narrowleaf puccoon (Lithospermum incisum)
• red puccoon (Sanguinaria canadensis)

参照

• “puccoon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.