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語源

Named after film star Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962).

名詞

Marilyn Monroe (複数形 Marilyn Monroes)

1. A woman representing an ideal type of physical beauty and glamour.
   • 1955, Thought, volume 7, page 952:

     Her neighbours who are no Marilyn Monroes themselves are secretly glad of it, and commiserate with her and blame the Jamuna water for their and her corpulency.

   • 1971, Earl Wilson, The Show Business Nobody Knows, page 303:

     "Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, It's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood."

   • 1975, Richard Corliss, Talking pictures: Screenwriters of Hollywood, David & Charles, page 71:

     Both actresses were too tough to make it as Audrey Hepburns and too angular to be Marilyn Monroes; wide-eyed aggression would have to do.

   • 2010, Gemma Halliday, Spying in High Heels, →ISBN:

     . I rounded the corner and made it to my Jeep, quickly locking the doors against any killer Marilyn Monroes before I picked up my call.

   • 2011, John C. Hartsock, Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery, →ISBN, page 124:

     So many California reds, in his view, hit you in the mouth too quickly, overwhelming the mid-range and its own more delicate and demur palate, which the Marilyn Monroes of red wine cannot accommodate because they engage in a deliberate come-on.

   • 2016, Robert Glück, "Dennis Cooper: Running on Emptiness", in Communal Nude: Collected Essays, originally from 1989, page 271.

     George is a type America produces, murders, and then is haunted by. That is, George and his friends are Marilyn Monroes, desirable and exploitable, “too dumb to live.”

   • 2017, Elizabeth Winder, Marilyn in Manhattan: Her Year of Joy, →ISBN, page 47:

     You may find a dozen beautiful hunks of photoplasm topped off with blonde hair. But they won't be Marilyn Monroes.

使用する際の注意点

• Also frequently used to refer to the literal person Marilyn Monroe.^[1][2][3]

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