tatami
pronunciation
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Word Origin
- tatami (n.)
- Japanese floor-mat, 1610s, from Japanese tatami.
Example
- 1. She lowers her head to the tatami and , hands trembling , offers us hot towels .
- 2. In the private room , laid with luscious green tatami , we swap cards and sit at a low table .
- 3. Officials are also considering a move against imports of a type of onion , and of the bulrushes used for weaving tatami mats .
- 4. When soaked overnight and rolled up into tall cylinders , tatami mats are said to come close to matching the density of the human body .
- 5. The crisis exposed or exacerbated ugly elements of japanese society that had been swept under the tatami mat , from its high rate of suicides and domestic violence to bureaucratic bungling and dishonesty .