gadroonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɡəˈdɹuːn/
• 韻: -uːn

名詞

gadroon (plural gadroons)

1. Any of a series of raised decorative curves used as adornments on the necks of vases, silverware, etc.
   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter V:

     Owing possibly to some flaw in his mental make-up, Uncle Tom has been collecting old silver since I was so high […] . I knew all about that collection of his, not only because I had had to listen to him for hours on the subject of sconces, foliation, ribbon wreaths in high relief and gadroon borders, but because I had what you might call a personal interest in it, once having stolen an eighteenth-century cow-creamer for him.

2. (architecture) A godroon.

派生語

Further reading

• “gadroon”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

アナグラム

• dragoon