dewpondとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From dew +‎ pond.

名詞

dewpond (plural dewponds)

1. (now rare) A shallow (typically artificial) pond occurring in hills without any spring as source, originally thought to be fed by condensation (dew or mist), and now generally believed to be rainfed.

   Synonyms: mist-pond, fog-pond

   • 1903, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Sussex’, Five Nations:

     We have no waters to delight / Our broad and brookless vales— / Only the dewpond on the height / Unfed, that never fails […] .

   • 1915, DH Lawrence The Rainbow, Vintage 2011, p. 431:

     Her hair was loose and blew about her shoulders, she ran swiftly, wearing sandals when she set off on the long run to the dewpond.

参考

• rainpond