gorgerinとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɔɹ.d͡ʒəɹ.ɪn/

名詞

gorgerin (複数形 gorgerins)

1. (architecture) In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; the hypotrachelium.
2. (historical) Synonym of gorget (“armor”)
   • 2011, Sean McLachlan, Medieval Handgonnes: The first black powder infantry weapons, Bloomsbury Publishing (→ISBN), page 53:

     It required each handgonner to wear a sleeved mail shirt, a gorgerin (armour protecting the throat かつ neck かつ made of mail または plate), a sallet (a type of helmet), and a breastplate. He also had to carry a dagger and sword.

3. Synonym of gorget (“wimple (clothing); necklace, neck-ornamentation”)
   • 1959, Robert Baldwick (translator), Against Nature:

     She is almost naked; in the heat of the dance her veils have fallen away and her brocade robes slipped to the floor, so that now she is clad only in wrought metals and translucent gems. A gorgerin grips her waist like a corselet, and like an outsized clasp a wondrous jewel sparkles and flashes in the cleft between her breasts; lower down, a girdle encircles her hips, hiding the upper part of her thighs, […]

   • 1992, R. W. Lightbown, Victoria and Albert Museum, Mediaeval European Jewellery: With a Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum, Victoria & Albert Publications

     The gorgerette, or gorgerin, a collar or scarf or fichu whose original purpose had been to protect the neck or the neck and shoulders, was decorated quite early with gold mounts and jewels.

   • 2014, Marcel Proust, Edward H Ousselin, Pleasures and Days and "Memory" / Les Plaisirs Et Les Jours Et "Souvenir" Short Stories by Marcel Proust: A Dual-Language Book, Courier Corporation (→ISBN), page 205:

     […] an azure gorgerin already attached to her royal throat, her aigrettes on her head, crosses her courtyard, […]

参照

• gorgerin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

アナグラム

• Gorringe, rogering