fusuma

[ fyoo-suh-mah ]

noun
  1. a sliding door in a Japanese house, especially one serving as a room partition.

Origin of fusuma

1
Borrowed 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 Fenollosa
  • She moved now deliberately to Um's fusuma, tapping lightly on the lacquered frame.

    The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil Fenollosa
  • Now, 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 Long
  • But Arisuga suspected that they were close behind the fusuma listening with staring eyes and gaping mouths.

    The Way of the Gods | John Luther Long
  • Accompanied 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