blanket
要点毛布
意味
- 毛布
- (毛布にように)一面に広がっておおう物
- …を毛布でおおう,(毛布でおおうように)…を一面におおう
- 包括的な,総括的な
例文
Don't throw a wet blanket over our conversation.
人の話に水を差さないでくれ。
Could you bring me a pillow and blanket, please?
枕と毛布をもってきていただけるか。
Food and blankets were given out to the refugees.
食べ物と毛布が難民に配られました。
語源
古フランス語blanket「白い毛織物」（blanc「白い」）から。白いウール地「毛布」。
blank（白紙の・空白）と同じ語源。
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Inherited from Middle English blanket, blonket, blaunket, from Old Northern French blanket, blancet (“white horse", also "white woollen cloth or flannel; a type of jacket”, literally “that which is white”) (whence Modern French blanchet), diminutive of blanc (“white”), of Germanic origin (compare Old English blanca (“white horse”); see more at blank). Furthermore, the sense "white woollen cloth" is likely a calque of Old English hwītel (“blanket; cloak, mantle”), from Old English hwīt (“white”) + -el (diminutive suffix). Compare also Old Norse hvítill (“a white bed-cover, sheet”), Norwegian kvitel (“blanket”). Compare also blunket, plunket.