| 释义 |
holoku|həʊˈləʊkuː|
[Hawaiian.]
A long gown with a train as worn in Hawaii.
1891R. L. Stevenson Island Nights' Entertainments (1893) 177 She..stood by the track-side in her red holoku. Ibid. 207 Kokua concealed the bottle under her holoku. 1923C. Cameron Two Yrs. in Southern Seas i. 20 Her gown was a ‘holokus’, the native robe of a long ‘princess’ style, loose and flowing with train of bright yellow. 1954J. Sheridan in J. D. MacDonald Lethal Sex (1962) 155 A stately Hawaiian woman in a flowered holoku. 1960Guardian 3 Nov. 10/4 Long-skirted dresses, called muumuus and holokus, that were adaptations of respectable female attire in Massachusetts. 1967M. Davis Strange Corner (1968) xv. 111 He..dropped his eyes to the skin-tight white holoku and whistled. |