furoshiki
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Japanese 風呂敷 (furoshiki).
Noun
[edit]furoshiki (plural furoshiki)
- A traditional Japanese wrapping-cloth, used for clothes, gifts etc.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 597:
- Around her slender neck, the beauteous Asian was also wearing a furoshiki printed in a woodland motif of peacock blue, taupe, and Chinese red, folded in a triangle so as to make a cowgirl bandana.
Translations
[edit]a traditional Japanese wrapping cloth
See also
[edit]Japanese
[edit]Romanization
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