fusuma
[ fyoo-suh-mah ]
noun
a sliding door in a Japanese house, especially one serving as a room partition.
Origin of fusuma
1Borrowed into English from Japanese around 1875–80
Words Nearby fusuma
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How to use fusuma in a sentence
Um-ko sat motionless against the silver fusuma, an ivory image, crowned and robed in shimmering gray.
The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil FenollosaShe moved now deliberately to Um's fusuma, tapping lightly on the lacquered frame.
The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil FenollosaNow, for the benefit of her mother, whom she knew to be still behind the fusuma, Hoshiko tried to look very severe.
The Way of the Gods | John Luther LongBut Arisuga suspected that they were close behind the fusuma listening with staring eyes and gaping mouths.
The Way of the Gods | John Luther LongAccompanied to the bed chamber the fusuma (screens) were closed, and he could hear the fall of the bars in the outer passages.
Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House) | James S. De Benneville
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