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名詞

bluejacket (複数形 bluejackets)

1. (nautical) A seaman of a British warship
   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 13, [1]

     It never entered his mind that here was a matter which from its extreme questionableness, it was his duty as a loyal blue-jacket to report in the proper quarter.

   • 1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 4, in Orlando: A Biography‎^[2], London: The Hogarth Press, OCLC 297407:

     ‘ […] I’m not sure’, she continued, ‘that I won’t throw myself overboard, for the mere pleasure of being rescued by a blue-jacket […] ’

   • 1942, Emily Carr, “Regatta”, in The Book of Small:

     The Navy and the Indian tribes up and down the Coast took part in the races, the Navy rowing their heavy ship's boats round from Esquimalt Harbour, manned by blue-jackets, while smart little pinnaces “pip-pipped” along commanded by young midshipmen.

2. (nautical) An enlisted man in the US Navy.
   • 1939, Fred J. Buenzle, ‎Arthur Grove Day, Bluejacket: An Autobiography, page 12:

     […] drift like tear-starting smoke across these exciting pages written by a bluejacket of the U.S. Navy.