alabaster browとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

alabaster brow ‎(複数形 alabaster brows)

1. The forehead of someone who is particularly pale, young, and beautiful.
   • "Her hair was pure gold rippling back from her alabaster brow" (Anne of Green Gables, 1908)

引用

Its first recorded use was in 1894, in The Protestation, an ode by a British clergyman, Selwyn Image, that appeared in a collection entitled Poems and Carols:

DEAR Eyes, set deep within the shade

Of Love’s pale alabaster brow;

Of what strange substance are ye made,

That such enchantments on me now,

Resistless, by your grace are laid?

It is also famously used in Anne of Green Gables, a novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery published in 1908:

Her hair was pure gold rippling back from her alabaster brow.

外部リンク

• Text of The Protestation