英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈblækaʊts/

名詞

blackouts

1. plural of blackout

名詞

blackouts pl (plural only)

1. (military, slang, historical) Long, dark-coloured underwear worn by the WAAF in winter.

   Coordinate term: twilights

   • 1995, Beryl E. Escott, Our Wartime Days: The WAAF in World War 2, page 35:

     […] her blackouts. When the Officer inspected everything went well. The only thing was that two of our WAAF were not wearing any knickers at all!

   • 2011 December 13, Peter Liddle, Captured Memories, 1930–1945: Across the Threshold of War: The Thirties and the War‎, Casemate Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     We had what were called the ‘blackouts’ and ‘twilights’. The blackouts were a dark sort of long-legged knickers, dark wintry ones, and the twilights were a lighter blue in a sort of Celanese material.