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| For pronunciation and definitions of コシ – see the following entry.
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| 【こし】
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- [noun] the waist, the (lower) back, the small of the back
- [noun] (anatomy) the lumbar region
- [noun] the skirting of a shoji
- [noun] the third line of a waka or tanka poem (from the way that the next two lines are longer, similar to the way the body gets wider at the hips)
- [noun] (of food) chewiness; springiness
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- [noun] palanquin, litter
- [noun] (rare, possibly obsolete, architecture) a storey
- [adjective] classical terminal form of modern adjective 濃い (koi, “thick in consistency; deep in color; rich in flavor”)
Alternative spellings輿, 層, 濃し
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| (This term, コシ (koshi), is the katakana spelling of the above term.)
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