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発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪkə(ɹ)/
  • (General American) enPR: wĭkʹər, IPA^(key): /ˈwɪkɚ/
  • 韻: -ɪkə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: whicker (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
  • Homophone: Wicca (in non-rhotic accents)

名詞

wicker (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 wickers)

1. A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture.
2. Wickerwork.
   • 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

     Then quick did dress / His half milk up for cheese, and in a press / Of wicker pressed it.

   wicker basket

   wicker cradle

派生語

• wickerwork
• rewicker
• wicker man

参考

• basket
• cradle
• rattan

形容詞

wicker (not comparable)

1. Made of wickerwork.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.

   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind‎^[1]:

     He rose to light my cigarette, then sank back into his wicker chair contentedly. The tea was weak, but not cold, thanks to the hot-plate.

Further reading

• wicker on Wikipedia.