Toshikazu Kawaguchiの小説 "Before the Coffee Gets Cold Tales from the Cafe" を読んでいます。
Gohtaro tilted his head as he looked at the woman’s chair. The seat that would take him back in time was vacant. Tentatively taking one step at a time, he went over, constantly wary that the woman in the dress might suddenly reappear with a diabolical grimace. Inspecting it up close, he saw it was a simple seat with nothing out of the ordinary about it. The chair had elegantly curved cabriole legs, and its seat and back were upholstered with a pale moss-green fabric.
"cabriole legs" を調べます。
・Collins Dictionary: Also called: cabriole le: a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
・Wiktionary: A type of furniture leg used in certain ornate styles of furniture such as Queen Anne, having a double curve resembling the leg of an animal.: It has been repaired in places, like a lot of period furniture, but it retains its original finish, […] along with splendid cabriole legs with claw-and-ball feet.
・Merriam-Webster: a curved furniture leg ending in an ornamental foot: This Louis XV-style chair features details including a curved wood frame, rounded seat back, and cabriole legs.
・Dictionary.com: Furniture. a curved, tapering leg curving outward at the top and inward farther down so as to end in a round pad, the semblance of an animal's paw, or some other feature: used especially in the first half of the 18th century.
我が家にはありませんが、こんな椅子を見たことはあります。
Gohtaro tilted his head as he looked at the woman’s chair. The seat that would take him back in time was vacant. Tentatively taking one step at a time, he went over, constantly wary that the woman in the dress might suddenly reappear with a diabolical grimace. Inspecting it up close, he saw it was a simple seat with nothing out of the ordinary about it. The chair had elegantly curved cabriole legs, and its seat and back were upholstered with a pale moss-green fabric.
"cabriole legs" を調べます。
・Collins Dictionary: Also called: cabriole le: a type of furniture leg, popular in the first half of the 18th century, in which an upper convex curve descends tapering to a concave curve
・Wiktionary: A type of furniture leg used in certain ornate styles of furniture such as Queen Anne, having a double curve resembling the leg of an animal.: It has been repaired in places, like a lot of period furniture, but it retains its original finish, […] along with splendid cabriole legs with claw-and-ball feet.
・Merriam-Webster: a curved furniture leg ending in an ornamental foot: This Louis XV-style chair features details including a curved wood frame, rounded seat back, and cabriole legs.
・Dictionary.com: Furniture. a curved, tapering leg curving outward at the top and inward farther down so as to end in a round pad, the semblance of an animal's paw, or some other feature: used especially in the first half of the 18th century.
我が家にはありませんが、こんな椅子を見たことはあります。
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