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語源 1

From Middle English shene, schene, from 古期英語 sċīene (“beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaunī, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁-.

Cognate with Scots schene, scheine (“beautiful, fair, attractive”), Saterland Frisian skeen (“clean, pure”), West Frisian skjin (“nice, clean”), Dutch schoon (“clean, beautiful, fair”), German schön (“beautiful”), Danish skøn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Bokmål skjønn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Nynorsk skjønn (“beautiful”), Swedish skön (“beautiful, fine”). Compare also the loanword Finnish kaunis (“beautiful”). See also English show.

形容詞

sheen (comparative sheener, superlative sheenest)

1. (rare, poetic) Beautiful, good-looking, attractive; radiant; shiny.
   • 1814, Walter Scott, Waverley:

     Where the fountains glisten sheenest […] (ch. 12).

   • 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, OCLC 940138160:

     Up rose each warrier bold and brave, / Glistening in filed steel and armor sheen.

派生語

• sheenly

名詞

sheen (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 sheens)

1. (also figuratively) Splendor; radiance; shininess.
   • 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

     There is a greenish sheen across the shoulders of his greasy black suit, for the morning light has of a sudden begun to dance through the bay window.

   • 2022 September 27, Kim Severson, “The Last, Painful Days of Anthony Bourdain”, in The New York Times‎^[1], ISSN 0362-4331:

     Mr. Leerhsen said in an interview that he wanted to write a book without the dutiful sheen of what he called “an official Bourdain product.”

2. A thin layer of a substance (such as oil) spread on a solid or liquid surface.

   oil sheen

   • 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 1, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, →ISBN:

     Perhaps the simplest of sauces is the pat of butter dropped on a heap of hot vegetables, or stirred into rice or noodles, or drawn across the surface of an omelet or steak to give a sheen.

   • 2017, Jeffrey Miller; Ann Powers, Introduction to Environmental Law: Cases and Materials on Water Pollution Control, West Academic, →ISBN:

     Take the floating scum or oil sheen prohibitions. A discharger or an inspector simply can look to see if scum, or an oil sheen, is coming from a particular discharge. Assume an oil sheen begins at a discharge—is the sheen caused by that […]

派生語

• sheenful
• sheenless
• sheeny

動詞

sheen (三人称単数 現在形 sheens, 現在分詞 sheening, 過去形および過去分詞形 sheened)

1. (rare, intransitive, poetic) To shine; to glisten.
   • 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], OCLC 22697011, stanza XVII:

     This town, / That, sheening far, celestial seems to be.

名詞

sheen (複数形 sheens)

1. The letter ش in the Arabic script.

Further reading

• sheen on Wikipedia.