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fusuma

American  
[fyoo-suh-mah] / ˈfju səˌmɑ /

noun

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


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

The yadoya at Innai was a remarkably cheerful one, but my room was entirely fusuma and shoji, and people were peeping in the whole time.

From Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

The fusuma behind her closed as noiselessly as they had opened.

From The Dragon Painter by Fenollosa, Mary McNeil

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