curtalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkəːtəl/

名詞

curtal (複数形 curtals)

1. (historical) A variety of short-barrelled cannon.
2. (music) An early type of bassoon.
3. (obsolete) A horse or other animal having a docked tail.
4. (obsolete) Anything docked or cut short.

形容詞

curtal (comparative more curtal, superlative most curtal)

1. (obsolete) Of horses, having a docked tail.
2. (now まれに) Physically shortened; short.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, page 98:

     she had loosened her hair and changed into the curtal frock of sunbright cotton that he was so fond of and had so ardently yearned to soil in the so recent past.

3. (obsolete) Abridged, curtailed.
   • 1649, [John] Milton, [Eikonoklastes]  […], London: Printed by Matthew Simmons,  […], OCLC 1044608640:

     essays and curtal aphorisms

派生語

• curtal friar

参考

• curtal-axe

アナグラム

• Cultra