bloomer的词源

英文词源

bloomer

bloomer: [19] Bloomers, long loose trousers worn by women, were not actually invented by someone called Bloomer – the credit for that seems to go to a Mrs Elizabeth Smith Miller of New York – but their first advocate was Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818–94), a US feminist who strongly promoted their use in the early 1850s as a liberated garment for women. The extent to which this became a cause célèbre can be gauged by the fact that it gave rise to so-called Bloomerism, a movement for ‘rationalizing’ women’s dress; in 1882 Lady Harberton wrote in Macmillan’s Magazine ‘“Bloomerism” still lurks in many a memory’. Bloomer ‘mistake’ is late 19th-century, and apparently originally Australian.

Early commentators derived it, not altogether convincingly, from ‘blooming error’.

bloomer (n.)

1730, agent noun from bloom (v.).

中文词源

bloomer（女式灯笼裤）：19世纪美国女权主义活动家布鲁姆夫人

bloomer是一种宽松的女式裤，指裤管直筒宽大，裤脚口收紧，裤腰部位嵌缝松紧带，上下两端紧窄，中段松肥，形如灯笼的一种裤子。灯笼裤大多用柔软的绸料或化纤衣料裁制，轻松舒适，多为休闲时穿着，适宜作练拳操和练功等穿着之用。中式练功裤和运动裤也常采用这种造型。

灯笼裤的名称bloomer来自19世纪美国女权主义活动家艾米莉亚·布鲁姆（Amelia Bloomer）的名字。布鲁姆夫人是一位热心的女权主义活动家，大力提倡女性从传统的长裙束缚中解放出来，改穿更加舒适、使用的裤装。1851年，布鲁姆夫人在自己的杂志上大力宣扬由另一名女权主义者伊丽莎白·史密斯·米勒所设计的“土耳其式裤子”，即现在所谓的“灯笼裤”。很快，这种舒适实用的女裤被越来越多的女性采用，并被称为The Bloomer Costume（布鲁姆服装），后来简称为bloomers。

bloomer：['bluːmə] n.女式灯笼裤

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bloomer：大错

来自bloom, 比喻义。可能来自脸红，窘迫。