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单词 pillow word
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pillow wordn.

Brit. /ˈpɪləʊ wəːd/, U.S. /ˈpɪloʊ ˌwərd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Japanese lexical item. Etymons: pillow n., word n.
Etymology: < pillow n. + word n., after Japanese makura-kotoba (1413 in form makura no kotoba) pillow word.
In Japanese classical verse: a decorative word or short phrase placed before a name or other word, for the sake of imagery, euphony, metre, or solemnity.Pillow words, of which about 1200 are recorded, were archaic stock conventional epithets, the meaning of which had in many cases been partly or completely lost over time.
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1877 B. H. Chamberlain in Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan 5 i. 80 A ‘Pillow-Word’..is a word destitute of life, on which the succeeding significative word, as it were, rests its head.
1899 Eng. Hist. Rev. Apr. 225 The rhymeless metre..is eked out by pillow-words.
1967 R. A. Miller Japanese Lang. (1980) 299Pillow-words’ of four syllables are made to fit into the usual five-syllable context of Japanese poetry by the addition of no.
1994 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 54 209 Utinabiku is a pillow-word for spring (haru) and grass (kusa), suggesting the bending or waving of luxuriant foliage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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