rayon的词源

英文词源

rayon (n.)

1924, chosen by National Retail Dry Goods Association of America, probably from French rayon "beam of light, ray," from rai (see ray (n.1)), which also was used in Middle English as a name for a type of cloth. So called because it is shiny. A more marketable alternative than the original patented name, artificial silk (1884), or the intervening attempt, Glos, which was "killed by ridicule" ["Draper's Record," June 14, 1924].

中文词源

rayon：人造丝

来自 ray,光线，-on,表纺织品，词源同 nylon.比喻用法，因其透射光线而命名。

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