Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fukusa

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fukusa
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A piece of decorated silk used to cover gifts in the Japanese tradition.

Example Sentences

"he sought to accumulate the most exquisite specimens that he could find of textile and embroidered work, getting [...] Japanese Foukousas with their green-toned golds and their marvellously plumaged birds."
"An 18th-century fukusa, an elaborately embroidered and painted cloth that is draped over a gift in place of wrapping paper, is one of 135 objects from the Katherine and Gilbert Boone collection of Japanese art that is on display at the Field Museum of Natural History through October 2."

Etymology

From Japanese 袱紗.

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: 袱紗

Inflected Forms

fukusas (plural) foukousa (alternative)

Questions

What does fukusa mean?: A piece of decorated silk used to cover gifts in the Japanese tradition.
Where does fukusa come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

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