jonque
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English
Noun
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 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
Alternative forms
Etymology
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
Noun
jonque f (plural jonques)
- junk (type of ship)
Further reading
- “jonque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
- “junk, n.3”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2024.
