vernicleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

vernicle (plural vernicles)

1. veronica (image of Jesus).
   • c1386, Langland, “A-text”, in Piers Plowman‎:

     And þe vernicle bi-fore · for men schulde him knowe

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   • 1392, Chaucer, “Prologue 685”, in The Canterbury Tales‎:

     A vernicle hadde he sowed on his cappe. / His walet lay biforn him in his lappe.

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   • 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter 3, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book IV (The Candle in the Wind):

     Following closely behind them perhaps there would have strode a professional pilgrim, supporting himself on a stout knobbled staff shod like an alpenstock and weighed down with blessed medals, relics, shells, vernicles and so forth.