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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /tʃəʊˈpiːn/
• 韻: -iːn

名詞

chopine (plural chopines)

1. A bottle of wine (usually Bordeaux) containing 0.250 fluid liters, ⅓ of the volume of a standard bottle.
2. (historical, footwear) A type of women's platform shoe that was popular in the 15th and 16th centuries.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 263, column 2, lines 364-365:

     Byrlady your Ladyſhip is neerer Heauen then when I ſaw you laſt, by the altitude of a Choppine.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[9]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     He creaked to and fro, tiptoing up nearer heaven by the altitude of a chopine […]

参考

Further reading

• chopine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Cophine, phocine