jonque
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]jonque (plural jonques)
- A canary that is of a single color with no dark feathers.
- Coordinate term: mealy
- 1800, The New and Complete Canary-bird Fancier, page 8:
- I know not, indeed, if the artist could give the beautiful orange which distinguish [sic] the jonque, or the mellowness of tint that pervades the mealy.
- 1865, All the Year Round, volumes 13-14, page 85:
- Canary-birds, however, are not likely to become extinct; […] each flock is said to have its own peculiar song, but we must not think the "jonques," so popular among us, form the majority in a flock.
- 1875, The Bird-Keeper's Guide and Companion, page 19:
- Pied birds are produced by matching a green jonque with a clean jonque, or a mealy hen.
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Italian giunca / giunco, from Portuguese junco, from Arabic جُنْك (junk), from Malay jong, from Javanese ꦗꦺꦴꦁ (jong), from Old Javanese joṅ (“seagoing ship”). Compare German Dschunke, Spanish junco, English junk, Dutch jonk.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]jonque f (plural jonques)
- junk (type of ship)
Further reading
[edit]- “jonque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “junk, n.3”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2024.
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