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語源

Borrowed from French caoutchouc, from Spanish caucho, from Quechua kawchu.

発音

• IPA: /ˈkaʊt͡ʃʊk/, /ˈkaʊt͡ʃuk/

名詞

caoutchouc (countable and uncountable, plural caoutchoucs)

1. (obsolete) Latex; natural rubber.

   Synonym: india rubber

   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 299:

     Many a passer-by thought Miss Arundel was listening to some subject of most touching interest: his Lordship was only detailing the benefit he derived one wet day from his caoutchouc cloak.

   • 1846, editorial staff, The Speaking Automation in "Scientific American", series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 98

     The Automaton can plainly, at the will of the casual spectator, speak any sentence or words, in any language, sing, whisper, laugh, &c.; the organs of articulation are formed of caoutchouc—exactly resembling those appertaing(sic) to humanity....

   • 1855, William Somerville Orr, Orr's Circle of the Sciences, page 205:

     Resin, pitch, sealing-wax, caoutchouc, sulphur, gutta-percha, and generally all bodies commonly termed resinous, besides a great variety of others, will be found to acquire, after friction, the power of attracting light bodies, and hence will be said, according to a limitation of terms already accepted, to be in an electrized or electrified state .

派生語

• caoutchin
• mineral caoutchouc

参照

• “caoutchouc”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “caoutchouc”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.