coolthとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /kuːlθ/
• 韻: -uːlθ

名詞

coolth (usually uncountable, plural coolths)

1. The state of being cool, temperature-wise; coolness.
   • 1611, Randle Cotgrave, compiler, “Froid”, in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, signature Rr, verso, column 2:

     Froid: m. Cold, cooth; coldneſſe, chilneſſe.

   • 1842, Fanny Burney, Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay:

     In the evening my father and Mrs Thrale seated themselves out of doors, just before the Blue-room windows, for coolth and chat; […]

   • 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC:

     Through the speckled shadow of the great deodar-forests […] and back into the woodlands’ coolth again […]

   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Penguin, published 2004, page 628:

     The water pushed large blocks of tepid air about around his chair, giving the faint illusion of freshness and coolth.

   • 2012, David Crichton, Fergus Nicol, Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change:

     This they do, not only convectively by passing cooler air over the skins of building occupants, but also using radiant coolth.

   • 2017, Stephanie Huesler, The Price of Freedom, Indie 2017 (Northing Trilogy), p. 253:

     Her voice was an odd mixture of cordiality and coolth.

反意語

• warmth

アナグラム

• Clotho