Chapter Four_The Danish Girl

Vocabulary

1. debutante (n.) 初次進入社交界的女子
　an upper-class young woman making her first appearance in fashionable society
2. organdy = organdie (n.) 蟬翼紗
　a fine translucent cotton or silk fabric used for women's clothing
3. poinsettia (n.) 聖誕紅
4. hoot (v.) 做貓頭鷹叫聲、表示不滿的聲音
5. gopher (n.) 北美產的地鼠；Gopher (n.) 明尼蘇達州人
6. sumac = sumach (n.) 漆樹
7. elderberry (n.) 接骨木
8. arroyo (n.) 美國西南部的乾枯小河道、小溪
9. camellia (n.) 山茶花
10. frond (n.) 蕨類的葉子、藻類的藻體
11. settee (n.) 有靠背的長椅
12. loam (n.) 壤土、肥土
13. plein-air (n.) 外光畫法
　the act of painting outdoors where a painter reproduces the actual visual conditions seen at the time of the painting (from Wiki)
14. hibiscus (n.) 木槿
15. cold compress 冰敷