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• organdie

語源

From French organdi, possibly derived from the French name of the city Urgench.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɔːɡəndi/

名詞

organdy (countable and uncountable, plural organdies)

1. A fine, transparent type of muslin, usually stiffened. [from 18th c.]
   • 1934, Kay Boyle, My Next Bride, Virago, published 1986, page 317:

     “I took it to garden-parties after I came out, with my hair curled and an organdie hat on top of the whole thing […] .”

   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 445:

     Beside them stood a puzzled female dwarf with a hideously rouged face as if ready for the circus; she was clad in white organdie with a marriage veil.

参考

• organza

アナグラム

• dragony, Graydon