fusuma
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of fusuma
Borrowed into English from Japanese around 1875–80
Example Sentences
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Set in a garden among plum and kiwi trees, the cottage has traditional tatami mats, shoji-paper and fusuma sliding doors, chunky wooden cabinets and tokonoma alcoves.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 18, 2023
The restaurant’s noodles incorporate a wheat bran, fusuma, and a wheat germ, haiga, to give the flour a grainier texture and, as the menu puts it, “a variety of nutrients.”
From The New Yorker • Jul. 12, 2019
The restaurant’s noodles incorporate a wheat bran, fusuma, and a wheat germ, haiga, to give the flour a grainier texture and, as the menu puts it, “a variety of nutrients.”
From The New Yorker • Jul. 12, 2019
A fusuma opened softly, and two women, Mata and the attendant seamstress, came mincing and smirking toward her, each with an armful of white silk.
From The Dragon Painter by Fenollosa, Mary McNeil
The slight paper shoji and fusuma between the small rooms serve only partially to shut out peering eyes; they afford no protection from listening ears.
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Gulick, Sidney Lewis
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