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語源

From Spanish reata, from reatar (“to retie”). Compare lariat.

発音

• IPA: /ɹɪˈɑːtə/

名詞

riata (plural riatas)

1. (US, regional) A lariat or lasso. [from 19th c.]
   • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter I, in The Understanding Heart:

     “You double-crossing devil,” the young man growled. “ […] Hereafter you'll trot ahead of me at the end of a riata, while I keep you on the jump with a four-horse whip. Right now you're scattering my dunnage from hell to breakfast, […] ”

   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 429:

     A few blocks from the capitol we stripped him, cut off everything hanging between his legs, then fixed him with a riata and dragged him up and down Congress.

アナグラム

• Arita, Atari, Atira, Taira, aarti, arati, atari, atria, raita, taira, tarai, tiara