munitionetteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From munition +‎ -ette.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /mjʊnɪʃəˈnɛt/

名詞

munitionette (複数形 munitionettes)

1. (UK, colloquial, now historical) A female worker in a munitions factory, especially during the First World War. [from 20th c.]
   • 1991, Pat Barker, Regeneration, Penguin 2014 (The Regeneration Trilogy), p. 119:

     Since they all had a slightly yellow tinge to their skin, he assumed they were munitions workers. Munitionettes, as the newspapers liked to call them.

同意語

• canary girl
• munitioneer
• munitioner