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feng shui
[ fuhng-shwey, feng-shwee ]
/ ˈfʌŋ ˈʃweɪ, ˈfɛŋ ˈʃwi /
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the Chinese art or practice of creating harmonious surroundings that enhance the balance of yin and yang, as in arranging furniture or determining the siting of a house.
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Origin of feng shui
1795–1800; from Chinese: natural surroundings, literally, “wind and water”
Words nearby feng shui
fenestrated, fenestration, fenfluramine, F Eng, Fengjie, feng shui, Fengtien, Feng Yu-hsiang, Fenian, Fenian cycle, fenland
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How to use feng shui in a sentence
After several years in the job, perhaps the feng shui warranty has already run out.
Much of the national art of Feng-shui is concerned, under the mask of divination, with these common-sense aims.
A History of Epidemics in Britain (Volume I of II)|Charles CreightonThey have to bury folks according to the rules of Feng Shui.
Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife|Marietta HolleyIf Feng Shui should order a burial place in a dooryard it would have to be there.
Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife|Marietta Holley
British Dictionary definitions for feng shui
feng shui
/ (ˈfʌŋ ˈʃweɪ) /
noun
the Chinese art of determining the most propitious design and placement of a grave, building, room, etc, so that the maximum harmony is achieved between the flow of chi of the environment and that of the user, believed to bring good fortune
Word Origin for feng shui
C20: from Chinese feng wind + shui water
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