English Dictionary

gage

IPA（発音記号）

/ɡeɪd͡ʒ/

名詞

廃用

Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative). / (obsolete) Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.

日本語の意味

（比喩的に）戦いの挑戦として、象徴的に差し出される証や誓約としての品物（例：手袋など） / （古語）担保や賠償、保証として預けられる貴重な品物

The artist's provocative installation was a gage to the critics, daring them to condemn or praise it honestly.

その芸術家の挑発的なインスタレーションは批評家たちへの挑戦状であり、率直に非難するか称賛するかを迫った。

意味（1）

Something, such as a glove or other pledge, thrown down as a challenge to combat (now usually figurative).

“But it is enough that I challenge the trial by combat — there lies my gage.” She took her embroidered glove from her hand, and flung it down before the Grand Master with an air of mingled simplicity and dignity…

意味（2）

(obsolete) Something valuable deposited as a guarantee or pledge; security, ransom.

[I]t seemed to create a sort of material link between the Princess and himself, and at the end of three months it almost appeared to him, not that the exquisite book was an intended present from his own hand, but that it had been placed in that hand by the most remarkable woman in Europe.... [T]he superior piece of work he had done after seeing her last, in the immediate heat of his emotion, turned into a kind of proof and gage, as if a ghost, in vanishing from sight, had left a palpable relic.

gages （ plural ）