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
Their feet were against the groove which held the fusuma.
From The Way of the Gods by John Luther Long
The little boy parted the fusuma yet more and looked.
From The Way of the Gods by John Luther Long
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