jacalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Mexican Spanish jacal, from Nahuatl xacalli.

発音

• IPA^(key): /həˈkɑːl/
• 韻: -ɑːl

名詞

jacal (複数形 jacals または jacales)

1. A wattle-and-mud hut common in Mexico and the southwestern US.
   • 1930, Katherine Anne Porter, “María Concepción” in The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1965, p. 5,^[1]

     The leaning jacal of dried rush-withes and corn sheaves, bound to tall saplings thrust into the earth, roofed with yellowed maguey leaves flattened and overlapping like shingles, hunched drowsy and fragrant in the warmth of noonday.

   • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses:

     A few jacales of brush and mud with brush roofs and a pole corral where five scrubby horses with big heads stood looking solemnly at the horses passing in the road.

   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 84:

     Canning fruit and vegetables in the worst of the summer heat—hotter in the jacals than it was outside.

関連する語

• shack (possibly)