2014年1月6日 星期一

demimondaine, pout, crinolined, skirt, hoop skirt, notions, sensitivity line-skirting, underpressure

  • The first room of the Courtauld show has a small selection of these works. “Spanish Woman” reveals the skill of a savvy young artist. Here Picasso deftly evokes a grandly crinolined young woman in the manner of Goya, yet he gives his subject the confrontational pout and posture of a Parisian demimondaine
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  • Start-Up Skirts Cellphone Data Plans
    A start-up backed by a founder of Skype is set to launch a wireless data service that promises to save customers hundreds of dollars a year.
During Visit, Obama Skirts Chinese Political Sensitivities
By MICHAEL WINES and SHARON LaFRANIERE
President Obama has avoided public meetings with liberals, free press advocates and even ordinary Chinese.





The Murdoch Style, Under Pressure
By JEREMY W. PETERS and BRIAN STELTER


Line-skirting has always been part of doing business for Rupert Murdoch, but a voice-mail hacking scandal poses a new type of threat to News Corporation’s image.


Stop Pouting About Tech's Next Big Thing, It's Here

pout


 
音節
pout1
発音
páut
レベル
社会人必須
poutの変化形
pouts (複数形) • pouted (過去形) • pouted (過去分詞) • pouting (現在分詞) • pouts (三人称単数現在)
poutの慣用句
pouty, (全1件)
[動](自)
1 (ふきげんに)口を突き出す;ふくれっつらをする.
2 〈唇が〉突き出る.
━━(他)〈口・唇を〉突き出す;…を口をとがらして話す((out)).
━━[名]口を突き出すこと;ふくれっつら
in the pouts
むずかる.
pout・y
[形]ふきげんな;ふくれっつらをした.
pout・ing・ly
[副]


pout1

Pronunciation: /paʊt/
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verb

[no object]
  • push one’s lips or one’s bottom lip forward as an expression of petulant annoyance or in order to make oneself look sexually attractive:she lounged on the steps, pouting (as adjective pouting)pouting actresses [with object]:he shrugged and pouted his lips

noun

  • a pouting expression:his lower lip protruded in a sulky pout

Derivatives

poutingly

adverb

pouty

adjective (poutier, poutiest)

Origin:

Middle English (as a verb): perhaps from the base of Swedish dialect puta 'be inflated'. Compare with pout2


sensitivity
n., pl., -ties.
  1. The quality or condition of being sensitive.
  2. The capacity of an organ or organism to respond to stimulation.
  3. Electronics. The degree of response of a receiver or instrument to an incoming signal or to a change in the incoming signal; the signal strength required by an FM tuner to reduce noise and distortion.
  4. The degree of response of a plate or film to light, especially to light of a specified wavelength.

The name crinoline was invented by one of the fabric's manufacturers, who combined the Latin words crinis (meaning "hair") and lin (meaning "flax"). An alternative origin for the word is sometimes given: the combination of the French words crin (specifically meaning "horse-hair") and lin (again, meaning "flax").


Cutaway view of a crinoline, Punch magazine, August 1856

crinoline


 
音節
crin • o • line
発音
krínəlin
crinolineの変化形
crinolines (複数形)
[名]
1 クリノリン:スカートをふくらませるためのペティコート.
2 (1でふくらませた)フープスカート(hoop skirt).
3 芯地(しんじ).
4 (軍艦の)魚雷防御網.skirt
n.
  1. The part of a garment, such as a dress or coat, that hangs freely from the waist down.
  2. A garment hanging from the waist and worn by women and girls.
  3. A part or attachment resembling the skirt of a garment, especially:
    1. One of the leather flaps hanging from the side of a saddle.
    2. The lower outer section of a rocket vehicle.
    3. A flexible strip hanging from the base of an air-cushion vehicle.
    4. A piece of fabric that extends over or beyond something to afford protection.
  4. An outer edge; a border or margin: a base camp on the skirt of the mountain.
  5. skirts The edge, as of a town; the outskirts.
  6. Offensive Slang. A woman.

v., skirt·ed, skirt·ing, skirts. v.tr.
  1. To lie along or form the edge of; border: the creek that skirts our property.
  2. To pass around rather than across or through: changed their course to skirt the storm.
  3. To pass close to; miss narrowly: The bullet skirted an artery.
  4. To evade, as by circumlocution: skirted the controversial issue.
v.intr.
To lie along, move along, or be an edge or a border.

[Middle English, from Old Norse skyrta, shirt.]
  • 1860-1879
  • A Store Is Born
    To think it all started with a 19th century fad - the hoop skirt. That was the first item that Joseph and Lyman Bloomingdale carried in their Ladies' Notions Shop in New York's Lower East Side. In the late 1800's, most fashion retailers specialized in just one type of garment. Not the brothers Bloomingdale - their East Side Bazaar, opened in 1872, sold a wide variety of European fashions. It was the beginning of what would become a "Department Store".

skirt[skirt]

  • レベル:大学入試程度
  • 発音記号[skə'ːrt]

[名]
1 スカート;(ドレスなどの)すそ;スカート状のもの, すそ部
a tight skirt
タイトスカート
put ontake off] a skirt
スカートをはく[脱ぐ].
2 (馬のくらの)あおり革.
3 (機械・列車などの)スカート, おおい.
4 ((通例〜s))へり, 端;郊外(outskirts)
live on the skirts of the village
村はずれに住む.
5 ((略式))女;女の子
a piece [a bitof skirt
(いかす)女の子.
━━[動](他)
1 …のへりを通る[にある]
The railroad line skirts the business district.
鉄道は商業地区の周辺を迂回(うかい)している.
2 …を縁どる.
3 …を回避する.
━━(自)
1 (…の)周りにある[を進む]((around, round ...));(…の)へり沿いに進む((along ...)).
2 (…を)回避する((around, round ...)).
[古ノルド語. 原義は「短いもの」でSHORTと同系. SHIRTとはもと同一語であったが, 北欧系ではsk-となった]notion
n.
  1. A belief or opinion.
  2. A mental image or representation; an idea or conception.
  3. A fanciful impulse; a whim. See synonyms at idea.
  4. notions Small lightweight items for household use, such as needles, buttons, and thread.
[Middle English nocioun, concept, from Latin nōtiō, nōtiōn-, from nōtus, known, past participle of nōscere, to get to know.]


A hoop skirt or hoopskirt is a women's undergarment worn in various periods to hold the skirt extended into a fashionable shape.
Hoop skirts typically consist of a fabric petticoat with casings to hold a stiffening material, variously rope, osiers, whalebone, steel or nylon.[1] [2]
Lightweight hoop skirts, usually with nylon hoops, are worn today under very full-skirted wedding gowns. They can sometimes be seen in the gothic fashion scene. They are also an essential part of American Civil War reenactment.

See also


Notes

  1. ^ Arnold, Janet: Patterns of Fashion: the cut and construction of clothes for men and women 1560-1620, Macmillan 1985.
  2. ^ Arnold, Janet:Patterns of Fashion 2: Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C.1860-1940, Wace 1966, Macmillan 1972.

References

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demimondaine

 
音節
dem • i • mon • daine
発音
dèmimɑndéin | -mɔn-
demimondaineの変化形
demimondaines (複数形)
[名]売春婦.

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