hunting pink

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Scarlet, as worn by fox-hunters. countable,uncountable
    — Don't imagine elegant British foxhounds and mounted hunters dressed in their “hunting pink”. South Georgia foxhunts were just a bit different, Paul says.
  2. The traditional scarlet jacket and related attire worn by fox-hunters. countable,in-plural,uncountable
    — the open-fronted and unbuttonable surplices worn by Christ Church men in chapel were designed, tradition says, so that hunting pinks could not be concealed beneath them.

词形变化

hunting pinks plural

词源

Theories that the phrase derived from a tailor called Pink appear to be folk etymology. For further discussion see here (archived from the original).
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