trainbearerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

train +‎ bearer

名詞

trainbearer (複数形 trainbearers)

1. Someone who holds up the train of a dress, robe etc..

   She was first employed as the Queen's trainbearer, and went on to become her main lady-in-waiting.

2. Either of two species of long-tailed hummingbirds in the genus Lesbia, found in tropical South America.

派生語

• black-tailed trainbearer (Lesbia victoriae)
• green-tailed trainbearer (Lesbia nuna)

Further reading

• Lesbia (bird) on Wikipedia.
• Lesbia on Wikispecies.
• Lesbia (Trochilidae) on Wikimedia Commons.

参照

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