fibroとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

fibro (uncountable)

1. (Australia) Fibro-cement; a building material consisting of asbestos fibres and cement pressed into sheets.
   • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo 2012, p. 56:

     Every day, all day and all night sometimes, the town jammed jazz with bits of loose tin slapping around on top of the mud-stained fibro walls […].

   • 2015, Charlotte Wood, The Natural Way of Things, Allen & Unwin 2018, p. 19:

     There are a few faded colourless fibro buildings, jagged black holes punched here and there in the panels.

2. (informal) Fibromyalgia.
   • 2011, Linda Kay Mullinax, It's Okay to Hurt: My Life with Fibromyalgia (page 43)

     When I got fibro, the Internet was not in common use, so I didn't have the resources that a newly diagnosed person would have now.