fusuma

American  

[fyoo-suh-mah] / ˈfyu səˌmɑ /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of fusuma

Borrowed into English from Japanese around 1875–80

Example Sentences

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

All at once the two central fusuma were apart.

From The Dragon Painter by Fenollosa, Mary McNeil