origami

[awr-i-gah-mee]

noun

plural

origamis 

1. the traditional Japanese art or technique of folding paper into a variety of decorative or representational forms, as of animals or flowers.

2. an object made by origami.

origami

/ ˌɒrɪˈɡɑːmɪ /

noun

1. the art or process, originally Japanese, of paper folding

Word History and Origins

Origin of origami¹

1920–25; < Japanese, equivalent to ori fold + -gami, combining form of kami paper

Word History and Origins

Origin of origami¹

from Japanese, from ori a folding + kami paper

Example Sentences

“This? It’s an origami mask,” she said to an inquiring passerby.

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Fabrics are variously folded like origami, appliqued, quilted, embroidered, beaded, gathered, pleated, printed, felted, dyed, etched, lasered and layered.

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Hardest look Blount: Building some of the more statuesque wigs with cages and creating hair origami to add to them.

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It could be made of paper, like an origami cube.

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The method uses 'DNA origami', so-called as it uses the natural folding power of DNA, the building blocks of human life, to create new and useful biological structures.

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