英语词汇jenny haniver的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Jenny Haniver. Seamen once fashioned strange figures from dried skates, rays, or mantas they had caught, and gullible landlubbers often bought these “mermaids” and “dragons,” be- lieving them to be real. Beginning in the 13th century, sailors turned out such Jenny Hanivers, many specimens lasting for 600 years or more, but their name remains a mystery. The sur- name may be a corruption of Antwerp, a bustling seaport of the time, but it is just as possible that some anonymous sailor be- stowed the name of his sweetheart or another real woman on the lifelike mummies.

词汇	jenny haniver
词源	Jenny Haniver. Seamen once fashioned strange figures from dried skates, rays, or mantas they had caught, and gullible landlubbers often bought these “mermaids” and “dragons,” be- lieving them to be real. Beginning in the 13th century, sailors turned out such Jenny Hanivers, many specimens lasting for 600 years or more, but their name remains a mystery. The sur- name may be a corruption of Antwerp, a bustling seaport of the time, but it is just as possible that some anonymous sailor be- stowed the name of his sweetheart or another real woman on the lifelike mummies.
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