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• pewtre (obsolete)

語源

From 中期英語 peutre, from Old French peautre, from Vulgar Latin *peltrum (“pewter”), which is of uncertain origin. Possibly related to spelter.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpjuːtə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈpjutɚ/, [ˈpjuɾɚ]
• 韻: -uːtə(ɹ)

名詞

pewter (countable and uncountable, plural pewters)

1. An alloy of approximately 93–98% tin and 1–2% copper, and the balance of antimony.
   • 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):

     the pewter plates on the dresser
     Caught and reflected the flame

2. (historical) An alloy of tin and lead.
3. Items made of pewter; pewterware.
4. A beer tankard made from pewter.
   • 1876, Edward Jenkins, The Devil's Chain, page 86:

     The room was arranged by low wooden partitions into bays, where eight or ten men could sit together and rest their pewters and glasses on the narrow tables between.

   • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 26:

     When ranged up, these were discovered to be the tumbler, the pannikin, and the cracked cup aforesaid, a pickle jar, a jam pot, and a battered pewter marked "Britannia Hotel," a diversity of receptacles that called for the highest mathematical skill in measuring out an exact quantity to each guest.

5. A dark, dull grey colour, like that of the metal.

   pewter:  

6. (slang, dated) Prize money.

派生語

派生した語

• → Welsh: piwter

形容詞

pewter (not comparable)

1. Of a dark, dull grey colour, like that of the metal.

動詞

pewter (third-person singular simple present pewters, present participle pewtering, simple past and past participle pewtered)

1. (transitive) To coat with pewter.

派生語

• pewterer
• pewterware

参考

• touchmark
• trifle
• Appendix:Colors

アナグラム

• pewtre, prewet