slughornとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈslʌɡhɔːn/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈslʌɡˌhɔɹn/, [ˈsləɡ-]
• ハイフネーション: slug‧horn

名詞

slughorn (plural slughorns)

1. (nonstandard, rare) A certain fictional wind instrument.
   • 1767, Thomas Chatterton, The Tournament, line 150:

     Sounde, sounde the slughornes, to bee hearde fromm farre.

   • 1855, Robert Browning, “‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.’”, in Men and Women […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza 34, page 148:

     [...] And yet / Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set / And blew "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came."

   • 1989, Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!, page 153:

     The horn sounded a third challenge. / 'That's a slug-horn, that is,' said Colin knowledgeably. 'Like a tocsin, only deeper.'

2. Obsolete spelling of slogan (“a battle cry among the ancient Irish or highlanders of Scotland”) [17th–19th c.]

別の表記

• (wind instrument): slug-horn

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