英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˌʃɛvəˈljʊɚ/, /ˌʃɛvəˈlʊɚ/

名詞

chevelure (plural chevelures)

1. The nebulous part of a comet or star.
   • 1802, William Herschel, Catalogue of 500 new Nebulae, nebulous Stars, planetary Nebulae, and Clusters of Stars; with Remarks on the Construction of the Heavens:

     A bright star with a considerable milky chevelure

2. A head of hair.
   • 1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson‎:

     An anarchy of small curls was her chevelure, a dark upland of misrule, every hair asserting its rights over a not discreditable brow.

3. A periwig.

参照

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