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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ɹəˈtan/, /ˈɹatan/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɹəˈtæn/
• 韻: -æn

名詞

rattan (countable and uncountable, plural rattans)

1. Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus.
2. (uncountable) The plant used as a material for making furniture, baskets etc.
   • 2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 180:

     It took Elwood an hour to find Mr. Gladwell, who sat in a big rattan chair at the edge of the sweet potato fields.

3. (by extension) A cane made from this material.
   • 1906, Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula:

     He who first acts as striker asks the other how many blows of the rattan he will bear on his forearm without crying out.

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

   • 2008, Jean-François Bayart, Andrew Brown, Global Subjects: A Political Critique of Globalization:

     […] the rattan is still a valued instrument of discipline […]

派生語

動詞

rattan (third-person singular simple present rattans, present participle rattaning, simple past and past participle rattaned)

1. (transitive) To beat with a rattan cane.
   • 1915, Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson, The Antiquary, volume 51, page 56:

     Meanwhile Captain Colville rattaned Pearson very severely […]

Further reading

• rattan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Calamus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

アナグラム

• Tartan, Tatran, tantra, tartan