chamoisとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• Of the color sense (both nominal かつ adjectival) and of the animal sense (in the singular):
  • (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈʃæmwɑː/
• Of the animal sense (in the plural):
  • (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈʃæmwɑːz/
• Of the color sense (both nominal かつ adjectival) and of the sense concerning leather (in the singular):
  • (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈʃæmi/
  • 韻: -æmi
• Of the sense concerning leather (in the plural):
  • (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈʃæmiz/

名詞

Rupicapra rupicapra (1)

chamois (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 chamoises または chamois)

1. A short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; Rupicapra rupicapra.
   • 1831 October 31, [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 858441409, page 22:

     When my father returned from Milan, he found playing with me in the hall of our villa a child fairer than pictured cherub – a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills.

2. Short for chamois leather (“soft pliable leather originally made from the skin of chamois (nowadays the hides of deer, sheep, かつ other species of goat are alternatively used)”).
   • 1825 June 22, [Walter Scott], chapter XVI, in Tales of the Crusaders. […], volume I (The Betrothed), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., OCLC 5584494, page 317:

     [H]e seldom donned his armour, substituted costly damask and silk for his war-worn shamoy doublet, and affected at his advanced time of life more gaiety of attire than his contemporaries remembered as distinguishing his early youth.

3. The traditional colour of chamois leather.

   chamois:  

4. An absorbent cloth used for cleaning and polishing, formerly made of chamois leather.
   • 1926, Louise de Koven Bowen, Growing Up with a City, University of Illinois Press →ISBN, page 39

     I took them, breathed on them, polished them with a chamois and hung them on the chandelier.

   • 1984, Cruising World, page 158

     Mirrors can be cleaned with warm water and ammonia or vinegar and polished with a chamois.

   • 1989, Popular Mechanics, page 146

     Once your paint has been restored, drying your car with a chamois is just about all you have to do to restore the luster.

5. (cycling) A padded insert which protects the groin from the bicycle saddle.

別の表記

• chamoix
• shamois
• shamoy (廃れた用法)

派生語

• cattle chamois
• chammy, shammy
• chamois leather
• Pyrenean chamois

形容詞

chamois (not comparable)

1. Chamois-colored.

動詞

chamois (三人称単数 現在形 chamoises, 現在分詞 chamoising, 過去形および過去分詞形 chamoised)

1. (transitive) To clean with a chamois leather cloth.

   Synonym: shammy

参考

• Appendix:Colors

参照

• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

アナグラム

• chamiso