英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊlt.hʊd/

名詞

colthood ‎(uncountable)

1. The state of being a colt; the youth of a (male) horse.
   • 1876, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science^[1]:

     Their ruddy faces and somewhat cumbrous forms belong to the animal period of life that links together boyhood, colthood and calfhood.

   • 1917, B. M. Bower, The Lookout Man^[2]:

     She had a vague notion that all horses nowadays were trained from their colthood to buck--whatever that was.

   • 1922, Max Brand, Alcatraz^[3]:

     In the old days of his colthood, a barelegged boy used to come into the pasture and jump on his bare back.