padellaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

padella (plural padellas)

1. An Italian-style skillet, or small frying pan.
2. (often in combinations) A large cup or deep saucer, containing fatty matter in which a wick is placed, formerly used for public illumination.
   • 1910 (translated), Memoirs of Countess Golovina:

     Two porticos shut off the centre, and between the two porticos was a winter garden, magnificently illuminated by concealed padellas.

   • 1875, Newcastle Council Reports:

     The padella lamps , which were coloured red , white , and blue , were hung upon the trees and bushes at the sides of the walks , and were also placed in groups along the edge of the lake

   • 1884, A Short Account of the Tercentenary Festival of the University of Edinburgh:

     padella lights on the parapets of the North Bridge

参照

• “padella”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.