Poitrineとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (anglicized) IPA: /ˈpɔɪ.tɹin/
• (gallicized) IPA: /ˌpwɑˈtɹin/
• 韻: (gallicized) -iːn

名詞

poitrine (plural poitrines)

1. (historical) The breastplate of a knight's armour.
2. Synonym of poitrel (“chest-armor for a horse”).
   • 1924, Albert Frederick Calvert, Spain: An Historical and Descriptive Account of Its Architecture, Landscape, and Arts, page 58:

     The horse-armour of the harnesses (A37-38), on the contrary, seems to have been made for the Emperor Maxmilian, […] The ear-coverings of the one are shaped like rams ' horns, and the poitrine, or breast-plate, is embossed with grotesque faces.

   • 1936, Frank Gair Macomber, Arms and Armor, Oriental and European Examples of the XV to XVIII Centuries: Valuable Gothic and Renaissance Tapestries:

     IMPORTANT Suit of TURKISH HORSE ARMOR XV Century
     Composed of : chanfron, neck defences, poitrine, croupiere and side pieces of rectangular plates of steel joined by riveted links of mail; saddle, bridle, and stirrups.

3. Chest, bosom, especially of a woman.
   • 2018, Jerome Bixby, Devilish Tales: A collection of droll, teasing and very wicked fantasies, Digital Parchment Press

     Full red lips and a patrician nose, and a delicately formed but ample poitrine that curled Pierre's hands into iron hooks beneath the counter. "Forgive me, kind sir," she said, in a voice like music in a bedroom, […]

   • 2008, Leslie Carroll, Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarchy, Penguin, →ISBN, page 326:

     Her bodices fully covered her ample poitrine right up to her nonexistent neck.

   • 2010, Dick Cavett, Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets, Macmillan, →ISBN:

     (She points to her ID badge, situated on her ample poitrine, allowing my next unforgivable remark.) DC: Men don't have those.

関連する語

• poitrinal, poitrel
• petronel
• pectoral

アナグラム

• pointier