英和和英

語源

From Japan, due to this varnishing process being an imitation of East Asian processes. Sense “to ordain” in reference to the black clothes worn by the clergy.

発音

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒəˈpæn/
• 韻: -æn

名詞

japan (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 japans)

1. A hard black enamel varnish containing asphalt.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 64:

     My own apartment, however, I was allowed to enter; and very pretty, I must say, it is. It is hung with Indian-silk, where the brightest of birds, and the gayest of flowers, disport themselves on a white ground. The screens and dressing-table are of black japan, while the mirror is set in exquisite silver filigree work, of which material are also the boxes of my toilette.

2. Lacquerware.

動詞

japan (三人称単数 現在形 japans, 現在分詞 japanning, 過去形および過去分詞形 japanned)

1. (transitive) To varnish with japan.
2. (UK, slang, transitive, obsolete, religion) To ordain.
   • 1826, George Colman, The Connoisseur, page 179:

     Jack, hearing that I was in this part of the world, sent me a very hearty letter, informing me, that he had been double-japanned (as he called it) about a year ago, and was the present incumbent of — […]

参照

• japan at OneLook Dictionary Search
• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary