daughterlingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

daughterling (複数形 daughterlings)

1. (diminutive, endearing) A daughter, especially a young or precious one.
   • 2003, William Patten, Poems Old and New:

     BLOSSOM of the almond-trees, • April's gift to April's bees, Birthday ornament of spring, Flora's fairest daughterling; — [...]

   • 2004, Flora Annie Webster Steel, Dramatic History of India:

     Would I have my vanished sight once more I Tell me, daughterling, how looks this promised land towards which we have been journeying these months and years?

関連する語

• sonling