- 1蒙面毛帽；巴拉克拉瓦帽
A balaclava is a warm hat, often wool, that pulls down over your head and covers most of your face, with holes for the eyes and often the mouth. , motorcyclists, and soldiers wear them against wind and cold. Films and news also stuck a balaclava on the face of a , so in some places the word feels a bit threatening, not just . Americans often say ski mask for the same thing. The name comes from Balaklava, a town in Crimea. In 1854, during the Crimean War, British soldiers froze after the Battle of Balaclava because their clothes were not warm enough. People at home knitted wool caps to wear under helmets, and the troops called those caps balaclavas. The town’s name itself goes back to Ottoman Turkish for a fishing ground.
組成Named after Balaklava in Crimea (from Ottoman Turkish for a fishing ground). British troops in the Crimean War, after the 1854 battle there, gave the name to the wool caps knitted for them.
同家族的字
- Balaklavathe town — and the 1854 battle — the hat is named after
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Balaclavaname/ˌbæl.əˈklɑːvə/
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A town in St. Elizabeth parish, Jamaica.
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A locality in the Wingecarribee council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
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A suburb of the City of Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
balaclavanoun/ˌbæl.əˈklɑː.və/
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A type of warm headgear covering the neck, head, and often part of the face, with apertures left as necessary, often made out of wool.
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A ski mask with holes for the eyes and, sometimes, the nose and mouth, which may be rolled up and worn like a toque or pulled over the face for greater protection.
- George Ronald Waite, 33, known as Balaclava Bill because of the dark blue woollen hood he wore while robbing seven banks of $46,200 over the past two years, was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in Kingston Penitentiary.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- Balaklava
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。