leveretとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English leveret, leverette, from Anglo-Norman leveret, levrat, diminutive of levre, from Latin lepore, lepus (“hare”), of non-Indo-European origin.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛvəɹɪt/, /ˈlɛvɹɪt/

名詞

leveret (複数形 leverets)

1. A young hare less than one year old.

   Synonym: hareling

   • 1623, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi‎^[1], Act V, Scene 5:

     […] Shall I die like a leveret,
     Without any resistance?—Help, help, help!
     I am slain!

   • 1686, Edmund Waller, “Of a Tree cut in Paper”, in Poems, &c. written upon several occasions, and to several persons by Edmond Waller‎^[2], London: H. Herringman:

     Fair Hand that can on Virgin-paper write,
     Yet from the stain of Ink preserve it white,
     Whose travel o’er that Silver Field does show,
     Like track of Leveretts in morning Snow;

   • 1720, Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer‎^[3], Book 10:

     As when two skilful hounds the leveret wind;
     Or chase through woods obscure the trembling hind;
     Now lost, now seen, they intercept his way,
     And from the herd still turn the flying prey:
     So fast, and with such fears, the Trojan flew;
     So close, so constant, the bold Greeks pursue.

   • 1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 16”, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

     They heard Marvel squeal like a caught leveret, and forthwith they were clambering over the bar to his rescue.

参考

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