picoteeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• picketee (obsolete)

語源

Borrowed from French picoté (“marked with points”), past participle of picoter.

名詞

picotee (plural picotees)

1. (botany) A flower (such as a carnation) whose margin is a different colour from the flower's basic colour.
   • 1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:

     Louis Carlyle's voice was wonderfully suggestive in its phases of the varying aspects of the speaker himself, and at that moment it conveyed a portrait of Mr Carlyle in his very best early-morning business manner […] . In its crisp yet benign complacency Carrados could almost have sworn to resplendent patent boots, the current shade in suede gloves and a carefully selected picotee.

Further reading

• “picotee”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.