White Wallとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

White Wall

1. (rare) Memphis, Egypt or its central fortress
   • 1735, Charles Rollin, The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians, volume III, pages 250–251:

     Thoſe who eſcaped fled to Memphis, whither the conquerors purſued them, and immediately made themſelves maſters of two quarters or diviſions of the city: but the Perſians having fortified themſelves in the third, called the white wall, which was the largeſt and the ſtrongest of the three; they were beſeiged in it near three years, during which they made a moſt vigorous defence, till they were at laſt delivered by the forces that were ſent to their ſuccour.

   • 1907, Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge, transl., The Egyptian Sûdân: Its History and Monuments, volume 2, page 19:

     I will make an offering unto Ptaḥ and the gods who are within White Wall, I will perform all the ceremonies appertaining to Seker in the secret sanctuary, I will look upon the god who is on his southern wall (i.e. Ptaḥ), and then I will sail on down the river in peace.

   • 1976, Miriam Lichtheim, transl., Ancient Egyptian Literature, volume II: The New Kingdom, University of California Press, page 81:

     Lord of remembrance in the Hall of Justice,
     Secret ba of the lord of the cavern,
     Holy in White-Wall,
     Ba of Re, his very body.

   • 2000, Jaromir Malek, “The Old Kingdom”, in Ian Shaw, editor, The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, pages 83 and 104:

     For the Egyptians even more important was the fact that the place of the royal residence did not change, but remained at White Wall (Ineb-hedj), on the west bank of the Nile south of modern Cairo. […] The original capital at White Wall, founded at the beginning of the 1st Dynasty, was probably gradually replaced in importance by the more populated suburbs further to the south, approximately to the east of Teti’s pyramid.

   • 2012, Miroslav Verner, translated by Anna Bryson-Gustová, Temple of the World: Sanctuaries, Cults, and Mysteries of Ancient Egypt, page 93:

     The First Dynasty kings, however, continued to be buried in the south, in the cemetery of their forefathers of Dynasty Zero at Umm al-Ga‘ab by Abydos, close to the town of Tjeny (called Thinis または This in Greek)—likewise not yet reliably located archaeologically—which in the Early Dynastic Period still served as the capital of the country alongside the White Wall.

形容詞

whitewall (not comparable)

1. (of a tyre/tire) Having white sidewalls
   • 1987, “The Case of the Wool's Worth”, in The Jewish Law Review: The Mishnah on damages‎^[1]:

     Jake had just installed a radar detector and four new whitewall tires.

   • 2007, George McNicholl, How to Rebuild Corvette Rolling Chassis 1963-1982‎^[2]:

     The UniRoyal Tiger Pay Touring whitewall tire is not a performance tire, but it is totally acceptable for street use.

   • 2015, Neal Murphy, East Texas Serendipity: Discovering Stories, History, and Tales from an East Texan’s Perspective‎^[3]:

     I was shocked the other day when I Walmart that I could not find a whitewall tire for sale.

2. (US, military) Describing a hair cut with a closely cropped back and sides and the hair on the top of the head left longer.
   • 2007, Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic: Or, The Sexual Intellectual‎^[4]:

     A weird elongated creature with a whitewall haircut who had the big head as well as hands and fat thighs of the acromegalic, he was an uninhibited cross-dresser suffering from Gender Identity Disorder who constantly appeared in frocks.

   • 2011, Mike Stewart, A Clean Kill‎^[5]:

     A blond kid with a whitewall haircut and long, thin sideburns came over to stand beside the kid with the wimpy Roman do.

   • 2016, Lee Child, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back: A Jack Reacher Novel‎^[6]:

     With a whitewall crew cut, high and tight.

名詞

whitewall (複数形 whitewalls)

1. A tyre/tire with white sidewalls.
   • 1967, Portnoy's complaint

     She'd look two hun-erd percent better with the whitewalls...

   • 1947 June 20, Tide, page 25:

     Sales points you just have to snap on the whitewalls; they are easy to clean, can't scuff on curbs […]

   • 1974, “Be Thankful for What You Got”, in Be Thankful for What You Got, performed by William DeVaughn:

     Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac / Gangsta whitewalls

   • 2008, Joey Green, Joey Green's Fix-It Magic: More Than 1,971 Quick-and-Easy Household Solutions Using Brand-Name Products‎^[7]:

     To clean whitewalls on tires, spray Easy-Off Oven Clearn on the whitewalls, wait two minutes, and then rince off with a high pressure hose.

   • 2009, William Kloefkorn, Breathing in the Fullness of Time‎^[8]:

     They owned two of the largest houses in town; and they drove the latest Chevrolets available, 1941 models, both cars still sporting whitewall tires, which meant that the man who said he hadn't seen a whitewall since Hector was a pup was perhaps stretching the truth.

2. (US, military) A hair cut with a closely cropped back and sides and the hair on the top of the head left longer.

語源 2

See witwall.

名詞

whitewall (複数形 whitewalls)

1. (Britain, dialect, Northamptonshire, まれに) The spotted flycatcher.
   • 1885, Charles Swainson, Provincial Names and Folk Lore of British Birds‎^[9], volume 32, Spotted flycatcher:

     White wall (Northants).

   • 1903, The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia‎^[10]:

     The beam-bird, Muscicapa grisola; the spotted flycatcher. Also whitewall, white-bird.

   • 1905, Alexander Robert Forbes, Gaelic Names of Beasts (Mammalia), Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Etc‎^[11]:

     Wall bird, wall-plat, white base, whitewall.