Hukeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French huque, from Latin huca. See Dutch huik (“sleeveless cape”).

発音

• IPA: /h(j)uːk/
• 韻: -uːk

名詞

huke (plural hukes)

1. (historical) An outer garment (robe or cloak) worn by men and women in Europe in the Middle Ages, either as civilian clothing or over armor.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     there came one that seemed to be a messenger , in a rich huke

   • 1930, “The real Joan of Arc: a manly maid - her appearance, her dress, her armour”, in The Illustrated London News:

     Her only extravagances were fine accoutrements, gorgeous hukes, and mighty war-horses.

   • 1980, A. Ernestine Jones, The Trial of Joan of Arc:

     Judging from the surviving documents it would appear that Charles VII did nothing at all about Joan of Arc [...] but [she] also swore that she herself was often visited by God, dressed in a white robe with a scarlet huke over it.

   • 2015 March 12, Phyllis G. Tortora, Sara B. Marcketti, Survey of Historic Costume, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 173:

     […] but after this date “white” armor, or highly polished metal armor, was rarely covered except by a tabard or huke […]

Further reading

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

アナグラム

• heuk, kueh