Veneryとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛnəɹi/

語源 1

From Middle English venerie, borrowed from Middle French venerie, from Old French venerie (“hunting”), derived from vener, from Latin vēnor (“I hunt”).

名詞

venery (usually uncountable, 複数形 veneries)

1. The hunting of wild animals.
   • 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.

     But soon enough he’d wake up the second, real time, to make again the tiresome discovery that it hadn’t really ever stopped being the same simple-minded, literal pursuit; V. ambiguously a beast of venery, chased like the hart, hind or hare, chased like an obsolete, or bizarre, or forbidden form of sexual delight.

2. Game animals.

派生語

• beast of venery
• term of venery

関連する語

• venison