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rayon的词源解释,rayon来源

rayon(n.)

一种人造纤维,1924年由美国国家零售干货协会选择,可能源自法语 rayon “光束,射线”,来自 rai(参见 ray(n.1)),因为它很有光泽。这是市场营销人员对原有专利名称 artificial silk(1884)和另一种市场营销尝试 Glos 的替代品,后者因“被嘲笑而失败”[《Draper's Record》,1924年6月14日]。

[T]he production of rayon in American plants, which in 1920 had been only eight million pounds, had by 1925 reached fifty-three million pounds. The flesh-colored stocking became as standard as the short skirt. ... No longer were silk stockings the mark of the rich; as the wife of a workingman with a total family income of $1,638 a year told the authors of Middletown, "No girl can wear cotton stockings to high school. Even in winter my children wear silk stockings with lisle or imitations underneath." [Frederick Lewis Allen, "Only Yesterday," 1931]
“在1920年,美国工厂生产的人造丝绸仅有800万磅,到1925年已经达到5300万磅。肉色长筒袜变得和短裙一样普遍。……丝袜不再是富人的标志; 一个年收入仅为1638美元的工人妻子告诉 Middletown 的作者:“没有女孩能在高中穿棉袜。即使在冬天,我的孩子们也会穿着丝袜,里面还穿着丝光或仿真丝袜。”[弗雷德里克·刘易斯·艾伦,《昨日的唯一》,1931年]

巧合的是,古法语 rayon 几个世纪前被借入中古英语,作为一种布料的名称。

该词起源时间:1924年