- leotard
[leotard 词源字典] - leotard: [19] The leotard commemorates the French trapeze artist Jules Léotard (1830–70), who wore such a garment when he was performing. He was one of the foremost circus acrobats of his day, and a pioneer of aerial stunts: he performed the first mid-air somersault, and invented the ‘flying trapeze’ (he became known as the ‘Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze’, from George Leybourne’s song (1860) of that name), but fate has decreed that his name should be passed down to posterity in the form of a one-piece exercise garment.
[leotard etymology, leotard origin, 英语词源] - leotard (n.)
- 1881, leotards, named for Jules Léotard (1830-1870), popular French trapeze artist, who performed in such a garment.
