carnation

• n. [園芸]カーネーション; 肉色; ピンク
• adj.肉赤

coronation（戴冠式）の変化形が綴られたもので、もともとは花輪に使われる花を指す。この綴りは根元のcarn（肉）によって卑俗化したもので、実際この種の花のほとんどは肉色ではなくピンクの肉付きである。

carnation (n.)

"Dianthus Caryophyllus," commonly also called "pink," herbaceous perennial flowering plant native to southern Europe and abundant in Normandy, 1530s, of uncertain origin. The early forms are confused; perhaps (on evidence of early spellings) it is a corruption of coronation, from the flower's being used in chaplets or from the toothed crown-like look of the petals.

Or it might be called for its pinkness and derive from Middle French carnation "person's color or complexion" (15c.), which probably is from Italian dialectal carnagione "flesh color," from Late Latin carnationem (nominative carnatio) "fleshiness," from Latin caro "flesh" (see carnage). This carnation had been borrowed separately into English as "color of human flesh" (1530s) and as an adjective meaning "flesh-colored" (1560s; the earliest use of the word in English was to mean "the incarnation of Christ," mid-14c.). OED points out that not all the flowers are this color.

1. He was wearing a carnation in his buttonhole.

彼はボタン穴にカーネーションを挿した。

2.He was wearing a carnation in his lapel.

彼の襟にはカーネーションが1本ずつ付いていた。

3.He had a white carnation in his buttonhole.

彼はボタン穴に白いカーネーションをつけた。

4.The fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens.

彼女たちの頬の美しい淡紅色は、七重の日の光のように常に輝いている。

5.Miss Anna Jarvis 's mother 's favorite flower was the white carnation .

アンナ?リースさんのお母さんが一番好きな花は、白いカーネーションです。