lucernとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

lucern (複数形 lucerns)

1. (obsolete) A lamp.
   • a. 1500, Robert Henryson, Ane Prayer for the Pest

     Superne Lucerne, guberne this pestilens

語源 2

French luzerne.

名詞

lucern (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of lucerne (the plant alfalfa)

語源 3

Uncertain; possibly from Lucerne in Switzerland.

名詞

lucern (複数形 lucerns)

1. (obsolete) A sort of hunting dog.

   1603-1607, George Chapman, Bussy D'Ambois:

   My lucerns, too (または dogs inur'd to hunt / Beasts of most rapine).

2. (obsolete) An animal whose fur was formerly much in request (by some supposed to be the lynx); also spelled lusern or luzern.
   • c. 1622, John Fletcher; Philip Massinger [et al.?], “Beggars Bvsh”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii:

     The pole-cat, martern, and the rich-skin'd lucern / I know to chase.

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