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fusuma
[ fyoo-suh-mah ]
noun
- a sliding door in a Japanese house, especially one serving as a room partition.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fusuma1
Borrowed into English from Japanese around 1875–80
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Example Sentences
Um-ko sat motionless against the silver fusuma, an ivory image, crowned and robed in shimmering gray.
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She moved now deliberately to Um's fusuma, tapping lightly on the lacquered frame.
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Now, for the benefit of her mother, whom she knew to be still behind the fusuma, Hoshiko tried to look very severe.
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But Arisuga suspected that they were close behind the fusuma listening with staring eyes and gaping mouths.
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Accompanied to the bed chamber the fusuma (screens) were closed, and he could hear the fall of the bars in the outer passages.
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