abigailとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈa.bɪ.ɡeɪl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈa.bɪ.ɡeɪl/

名詞

abigail (plural abigails)

1. (obsolete) A lady's maid. [mid 17th–19th c.]
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, page 415:

     It was therefore concluded that the Abigails should, by turns, relieve each other on one of his lordship’s horses, which was presently equipped with a side-saddle for that purpose.

   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre:

     In the servants’ hall two coachmen and three gentlemen’s gentlemen stood or sat round the fire; the abigails, I suppose, were upstairs with their mistresses; the new servants, that had been hired from Millcote, were bustling about everywhere.

   • 1936, Georgette Heyer, The Talisman Ring, page 46:

     No light showed in the coachman's cottage, nor in the grooms' quarters, and no one appeared to offer the least hindrance to Eustacie's escape. She unlocked the door of the harness-room, pulled Lucy in after her, and setting the lantern down on the table, selected a bridle from the wall, and pointed out her saddle to the abigail.

派生語

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “abigail”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “abigail”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890), “abigail”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, pages 4–5.
• John S[tephen] Farmer, compiler (1890), “abigail”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume I, [London: […] Thomas Poulter and Sons] […], →OCLC, pages 5–6.