oeilladeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from French œillade.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /əːˈjɑːd/

名詞

oeillade (plural oeillades)

1. (literary) A glance, especially an amorous one; an ogle
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:

     I know your Lady do's not loue her Husband, / I am sure of that: and at her late being heere, / She gaue strange Eliads, and most speaking lookes / To Noble Edmund.

   • 1984, Anthony Burgess, Enderby's Dark Lady:

     ‘My, my,’ she said, with an oeillade meant to be comic.

   • 4 Sep 1999, Michael Billington, The Guardian:

     But the shifting moral tone is perfectly caught in Helen McCrory's polymorphous Phocion, who is mischievously aware of her sexual power and switches from macho snarls when seducing a woman to flirty oeillades when playing with a man.