gaung-baungとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

gaung baung (複数形 gaung baungs)

1. A traditional Burmese turban.
   • 1934, George Orwell, chapter 21, in Burmese Days‎^[1]:

     By the far bank a knot of men, one of them wearing a green gaungbaung, were waiting beside a sampan.

   • 1955, "Neutral but Nice," Time, 11 January, 1955, [2]

     Maneuvering amid the personalities and protocol of sticky Washington last week was an open-faced, roundly smiling, improbable-looking man in a gaung baung (gauze turbanlike cap with side bow) […]

   • 1974, Maung Maung, To a Soldier Son, Sarpay Beikman, p. 11, [3]

     On formal occasions college students would wear the gaungbaung. "The B.A. beau sauntering down the streets, walking-stick in hand and gaungbaung on his head," was the theme of a popular song in those days.

別の表記

• gaungbaung
• gaung-baung