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発音

• IPA^(key): /ɛksˈkæ.lɪ.bɚ/

固有名詞

Excalibur (複数形 Excaliburs)

1. (Arthurian legend, mythology) The legendary sword of King Arthur, having magical properties.
   • 1974, Stephen D. Isaacs, Jews and American Politics, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 53:

     Until recently, suppression of ethnicity has perhaps been the leading characteristic of the trend of thought of these Jewish intellectuals. Some, like Noam Chomsky and I. F. Stone, have been considered by some Jews to be so suppressed—or at least so overcompensating for their being Jewish—as to be regarded as anti-Semitic on some issues. Such men flaunt their universalism like Excaliburs of truth and objectivity.

   • 1998, Imogen Stubbs, “The Undiscovered Road: Northumberland”, in Dea Birkett, Sara Wheeler, editors, Amazonian: The Penguin Book of Women’s New Travel Writing, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 228:

     And we would see fish swimming among the tall bulrushes that rose like Excaliburs out of the lake.

   • 2017, James May, The Reassembler, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 19:

     You and I, we are not alone, and our screwdrivers are our flashing Excaliburs as we sally forth to make small parts of the fragmented world whole again.

使用する際の注意点

In the Arthurian legends, young Arthur is able to draw the Sword in the Stone, which proves that it is his destiny to become king. When he is a king, the Lady of the Lake presents him a sword. In some early versions of the legend Excalibur is the Sword in the Stone; in other versions it is the sword presented by the Lady of the Lake. In more recent retellings, these two swords have been identified with each other.