scapularyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

scapulary (plural scapularies)

1. (ornithology) scapular
2. A form of brace or suspender for keeping a belt or body bandage in place; it is made of a broad roller bandage split half way, the undivided part being in front, the divided ends passing over the shoulders and down the back.
   • 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 432:

     Like fairies in general the Korrigan steal children, against which the remedy usually employed is, to place the child under the protection of the Virgin, by putting a rosary or a scapulary about its neck.

   • 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume I, Book I, Chapter X, page 187:

     The friar put his hand under his scapulary, and drawing out a small linen bag which hung round his neck, took from it a bit of parchment […]

語源 2

From Middle French scapulaire and Latin scapulārius. By surface analysis, scapula +‎ -ary.

形容詞

scapulary (not comparable)

1. scapular

派生語

参照

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

アナグラム

• capsulary