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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /pjuːˈdɜː/
• (General American) IPA: /pjuˈdɝ/

名詞

pudeur (countable and uncountable, plural pudeurs)

1. A sense of modesty, shame, or reserve, especially as relating to sexual matters.
   • 1861, Caroline Clive, chapter VII, in Why Paul Ferroll Killed His Wife, pages 137–8:

     Leslie felt confident enough of that also, but the pudeur of composition (when the author has written what he felt) made him shrink from so much talk about it.

   • 1868, Paschal Beverly Randolph, chapter X, in After Death: Or, Disembodied Man, page 132:

     In preceding pages I have mooted a long-contested point of great importance, promising to recur it at a subsequent stage of this essay. I do so now because the pudeur of others has hitherto prevented its just discussion.

   • 1994, Janet Lungstrum, edited by Peter J. Burgard, Nietzsche Writing Woman/Woman Writing Nietzsche: The Sexual Dialectic of Palingenesis, quoted in Nietzche and the Feminine, →ISBN, page 152:

     Nietzsche, the conquering Dionysus-creator, thus confesses to having the pudeurs of a blushing bride, or of his faking Weib, when she “gives herself.”

アナグラム

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