英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈstiːk/
  • 韻: -iːk

名詞

mystique (usually uncountable, 複数形 mystiques)

1. An aura of heightened interest, meaning or mystery surrounding a person or thing.
   • 1960 December, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 776:

     THE LONDON BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. By C. Hamilton Ellis. Ian Allan. 30s. [...] In an opening chapter entitled "Portrait", he ends by asking whether there was a mystique about the L.B. & S.C.

   • 1963, Betty Friedan, “The Mistaken Choice”, in The Feminine Mystique:

     The mystique spelled out a choice—love, home, children, or other goals and purposes in life. […] The baby boom of the immediate postwar years took place in every country. But it was not permeated, in most other countries, with the mystique of feminine fulfillment.