skysillとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• sky-sill

語源

From sky +‎ sill.

発音

• IPA: /ˈskaɪˌsɪl/

名詞

skysill (plural skysills)

1. (nonstandard, rare, poetic) Horizon.
   • 1960, William Turner Levy, William Barnes: the man and the poems:

     When the sun sinks below the skysill (his word for horizon) there is most often in England the gloom of mistiness.

   • 1992, International Poetry Society, Orbis: Issues 84–87:

     Rooftops stagger the skysill. Clouds coast from nowhere to Nowhere as row upon row below Planetrees shuttle the moted Air.

   • 1995, Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars:

     They first appeared as two bumps rolling over the skysill, which quickly proved to be the connected outer points of a low ridge.

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• skyline