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shoji

[ shoh-zhee, -jee ]

noun

, plural sho·ji, sho·jis.
  1. 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

  1. a rice-paper screen in a sliding wooden frame, used in Japanese houses as a partition
  2. any similar screen
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of shoji1

1875–80; < Japanese shōji, earlier shaũji < Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese zhàngzi fence
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Word History and Origins

Origin of shoji1

C19: from Japanese, from shō to separate + ji a piece
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Example Sentences

The local people open their homes to show off their treasures inside: artworks, Shoji screens, their homes.

Meister, like Shoji, is a designer who consistently dresses plus-size stars.

Shoji next are opened, disclosing often the dull green mosquito net hung from corner to corner of the low-ceiled sleeping rooms.

Two of the four walls of the guest-room were of shoji, a lattice covered with translucent rice-paper.

With very cautious fingers she began now to separate the shoji that opened on the garden side.

In the deep, following silence each knew that old Mata's ear felt, like a hand, at the crevice of the shoji.

Um-ko in her room forgot her sewing, and leaned a delicate ear closer to the shoji.

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