margentとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

margent (複数形 margents)

1. (obsolete, poetic) margin; edge
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:

     Nothing but this! Yes, as much love in rime
     As would be cramm'd up in a sheet of paper
     Writ o' both sides the leaf, margent and all,
     That he was fain to seal on Cupid's name.

   • c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:

     Examine every married lineament,
     And see how one another lends content
     And what obscured in this fair volume lies
     Find written in the margent of his eyes.

   • 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, OCLC 228715864; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, OCLC 1113942837:

     Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen
     Within thy airy shell
     By slow Meander's margent green