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別の表記

• naker, nacker (obsolete)

語源

From Middle French nacre, from Medieval Latin nacchara, from Arabic نَقَّارَة (naqqāra). Doublet of nagara. Also present in nacarat.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈneɪkə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈneɪkəɹ/
• 韻: -eɪkə(ɹ)

名詞

nacre (countable and uncountable, plural nacres)

1. (obsolete) A shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     The shell-fish called a Nacre, liveth even so with the Pinnotere, which is a little creature like unto a Crabfish […].

2. A pearly substance made mainly of stacked layers of aragonite and organic matter which lines the interior of many shells; mother-of-pearl. [from 17th c.]
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray:

     On a little table of dark perfumed wood thickly encrusted with nacre, […] was lying a note from Lord Henry, and beside it was a book bound in yellow paper, the cover slightly torn and the edges soiled.

派生語

アナグラム

• recan, Crane, caren, Crean, Caren, rance, Carne, ancré, Rance, Nérac, crane, Cerna, caner, crena