Quenouilleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

quenouille (複数形 quenouilles)

1. The distaff- or cone-like shape of a tree that has been subjected to quenouille training.
   • 1823, Patrick Neill, Journal of a Horticultural Tour Through Some Parts of Flanders, Holland, and the North of France, in the Autumn of 1817, page 386:

     We had now an opportunity of seeing both pyramidal and quenouille trees, properly so called: they differ so slightly, that it is little wonder the terms should generally be considered as convertible.

   • 1843 January, William Kenrick, “Notes on England and France, during two several visits to those countries in the years 1840, 1841 and 1842”, in Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries, page 16:

     A portion of the pear trees, having been trained in the quenouille or pyramidal form , by bending downwards the young shoots at midsummer, and thus confined for a season, they retain their position forever after unchanged.

   • 2008, Thomas Brehaut, Cordon Training of Fruit Trees, page 14:

     By cutting your leading branches very short for a number of seasons, as in the case of that absurd form now happily abandoned—the "pillar" or "quenouill"—the tree becomes fruitful, it is true, but at the expense of size, form, and beauty.