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shoji
[ shoh-zhee, -jee ]
noun
- a light screen consisting of a framework of wood covered with paper or other translucent material, used originally in Japanese homes as one of a series of sliding panels between the interior and exterior or between two interior spaces.
shoji
/ -dÊ’iË; ˈʃəʊʒiË /
noun
- a rice-paper screen in a sliding wooden frame, used in Japanese houses as a partition
- any similar screen
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of shoji1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of shoji1
Example Sentences
Delicate, sliding shoji screens served as stage curtains for the concerts her mom put on, starring local schoolkids and church friends.
A shoji screen is folded to reveal a closet glowing with Chinese opera costumes.
The roof is followed by a moon, shoji screen and a maple tree with a single leaf.
My grandmother, who would soon be a war widow, recalled the crackle of wooden houses consumed like kindling, how the flames danced as the shoji paper screens caught fire.
Her firm is seeing a rise in interest for such things as Turkish-pattern rugs and Japanese shoji screens, she says, and “we just did a tropical Hawaiian powder room,†featuring palm leaf wallpaper.
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