black peterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Calque of Dutch Zwarte Piet.

発音

固有名詞

Black Peter (plural Black Peters)

1. The companion of Saint Nicholas in Dutch folklore, depicted as a blackamoor.
   • 2000 December 10, Michael Pye, “Displaced Person”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 1 August 2019:

     The young princes are beaten up on the street and bullied at school; they are flustered by the Dutch Christmas custom of blackface Black Peters who birch the naughty while St. Nicholas rewards the nice.

参考

• Sinterklaas, Dutch translation of Saint Nicholas.

Further reading

• Zwarte Piet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia