| 释义 |
‖ tamein Burma.|tæˈmaɪn|
Also 9 tamehn, te-mine; tamain.
[Burmese.]
A draped garment resembling a sari, worn usu. by women.
1839H. Malcolm Trav. S.-E. Asia I. ii. iii. 214 Women universally wear a te-mine, or petticoat. 1858C. T. Winter Six Months Brit. Burmah vii. 56 The te-miné is a very scant garment. Ibid. viii. 73 The woman's tamehn is a simple piece of cotton or silk. 1863Leisure Hour Oct. 667/1 With their shaven heads..and their scant tameins (petticoats). 1888Bow-Bells Weekly 11 May 293/2 Burmese women..wear of evenings or when visiting religious places, gay-coloured silk ‘tameins’. 1908Lady R. Churchill Reminisc. (1973) xiii. 272 As we drove by I saw half a dozen priests in their yellow ‘tamains’, or robes. 1926Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 66/1 An old tamein of blue cotton check..covered her from armpit to calf. 1950J. H. Williams Elephant Bill x. 164 She wore her blue tamain girdled above her breasts, leaving her beautiful pale shoulders bare. 1984J. Colenbrander Portrait of Fryn ix. 133 Mademoiselle Denigré, the blind French silk⁓weaver of the Royal tameins. |