demure
英 [dɪ'mjʊə; dɪ'mjɔː]
美 [dɪ'mjʊr]
- adj.威厳のある; 巧みな; まじめな; まじめなふりをする
- n.(demure)人名；（仏）ドゥミュール
語源
ドゥミュールフランス語のmature（成熟した）からきており、demureから派生して成熟した女性を指すのに使われる。
英語の語源
- demure
- demure: [14] Etymologically, someone who is demure is quiet and settled, not agitated. The word comes from demore, the past participle of Old French demorer ‘stay’ (source of English demur), and so semantically is a parallel formation to staid. One of its earliest recorded uses in English was actually to describe the sea as ‘calm’, and it was not until the late 17th century that its modern slightly pejorative connotations of coyness began to emerge.
=> demur - demure (adj.)
- late 14c. (early 14c. as a surname), from Old French meur "mature, fully grown, ripe," hence "discreet," from Latin maturus "mature" (see mature (v.)) [OED]. The de- in this word is of uncertain meaning. Or possibly from Anglo-French demuré (Old French demoré), past participle of demorer "stay," and influenced by meur [Barnhart]. Or from Old French de (bon) murs "of good manners," from murs (Modern French moeurs) [Klein].
例文
- 1. The luscious Miss Wharton gave me a demure but knowing smile.
- セクシーで魅力的なウォルトンさんは私に照れくさそうに笑った。
- 2.a demure young lady
- しとやかな若い女性
- 3.She 's very demure and sweet.
- 彼女はとてもしとやかでかわいい。
- 4.There she was，grey-suited，sweet-faced， demure ，but scowling.
- 彼女はそこにいて、灰色の服を着ていて、きれいな顔にはまじめで憂鬱に見えます。
- 5.Rather pale she looked and Londony ; and her blue eyes were demure .
- 彼女の顔は青白く、ロンドンらしい。蘭の目は端正に見える。