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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
/ -dʒiː; ˈʃəʊʒiː /
noun
- a rice-paper screen in a sliding wooden frame, used in Japanese houses as a partition
- any similar screen
Word History and Origins
Origin of shoji1
Word 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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