"a parchment," mid-15c., earlier "skin, hide" (mid-14c.), from Anglo-French pell, Old French pel "skin" (13c., Modern French peau), from Latin pellem, pellis "skin, leather, parchment, hide" (see film (n.)).
例文
1. All three of us rushed pell -mell into the kitchen.
私たち三人とも急いで台所に駆け込んだ。
2.The shelf contained a pell -mell assortment of English novels.
その本棚には雑然としたイギリスの小説が並んでいる。
3.They all pell -melled out of that river.
彼らはすべてその川から急いで岸に上がった。
4.The enemy fled pell -mell before us.
敵は慌てて逃げた。
5.Men on horseback dashed out of side streets pell -mell down Peacetree toward Hood 's headquarters.