vandalism
意味
- (公共物・芸術品・自然に対する)故意の破壊
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
Borrowed from French vandalisme, first used by Henri Grégoire to decry the pillage and destruction of art in the course of the French Revolution, in reference to the East Germanic tribe of the Vandals, which looted Rome in 455. By surface analysis, vandal + -ism.