assemblageとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French assemblage.

名詞

assemblage (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 assemblages)

1. The process of assembling or bringing together.

   the assemblage of words and recordings

2. A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
3. A gathering of people.
   • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter または volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352:

     But scarce was supper well over, before a change so incredible was wrought in me, such violent, yet pleasingly irksome sensations took possession of me that I scarce knew how to contain myself; the smart of the lashes was now converted into such a prickly heat, such fiery tinglings, as made me sigh, squeeze my thighs together, shift and wriggle about my seat, with a furious restlessness; whilst these itching ardours, thus excited in those parts on which the storm of discipline had principally fallen, detached legions of burning, subtile, stimulating spirits, to their opposite spot and centre of assemblage, where their titillation raged so furiously, that I was even stinging mad with them.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0147:

     Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

4. (art) A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often found, elements into works of art.
5. (archaeology) A group of different artifacts found in association with one another.

派生語

参考

• collage

Further reading

• assemblage (art) on Wikipedia.