英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈɛɡʃɛl/

名詞

eggshell (countable and uncountable, plural eggshells)

1. The shell around an egg.
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 380:

     Like Egge-ſhels mou'd upon their Surges, crack'd / As eaſily ’gainſt our Rockes.

2. A pale off-white colour, like that of the eggshell of many chickens.

   eggshell:  

   Coordinate term: robin's-egg blue

派生語

• eggshellful
• eggshell blue
• eggshell rule
• walk on eggshells

形容詞

eggshell (comparative more eggshell, superlative most eggshell)

1. Of a pale yellowish-whitish colour, like that of the eggshell.
   • 1959 January, “Single-Unit Diesel Railcars for the Western Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 57:

     The ceiling panels are in off-white eggshell semi-matt finish.

2. Exhibiting the thinness, translucency or near-transparency, and fragility of an eggshell.

   eggshell porcelain

3. Very matt, having a low reflexivity, like an eggshell.

   This clear varnish is available in gloss, matt and eggshell finishes.

参考

• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• eggshell on Wikipedia.Wikipedia