fusuma

American  

[fyoo-suh-mah] / ˈfju 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

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Example Sentences

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fusuma

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

Within a hotel or even a common dwelling house, nobody knocks before entering your room; there is nothing to knock at except a shoji or a fusuma, which cannot be knocked at without being broken.

From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick

Uchida, peering at him from between the fusuma, perceived the glory and turned away in silence; nor for that day nor the next would he allow any one to approach the frenzied boy.

From The Dragon Painter by Mary McNeil Fenollosa

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