abacotとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

abacot

1. (archaic) Alternative spelling of bycoket.
   • 1822, Lee Gibbons (William Bennett), Malpas; Or Le Poursuivant D'Amour. A Romance, Etc, page 71:

     On his head du Chatelet wore an abacot, or cap of state, looped at one side with a jewelled button.

   • 1893, Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Literary Blunders: A Chapter in the "History of Human Error", page 3:

     It was found to be a mistake for by-cocket, which is the correct word. In spite of this exposure of the impostor, the word was allowed to stand, with a woodcut of an abacot, in an important dictionary published subsequently, although Dr. Murray's remarks were quoted. This shows how difficult it is to kill a word ...

使用する際の注意点

This word has sometimes been considered a misspelling, but some dictionaries including the online OED and Webster's Third from 1961 list this as a variant or alternative spelling. According to Michael Quinion, the OED entry was updated in 2011.

派生した語

• →? Portuguese: abacote

アナグラム

• Tabaco