What does netsukes mean?

netsukes

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"Some apology, I feel, is due from one who has never been in Japan for venturing to write about netsukes."
"[…] they have gone into the galleries to see the Japanese paintings, lacquered boxes, netsukes, etc."
"Netsukes were used by the Japanese as bobs or toggles in connection with a cord for suspending a tobacco pouch[…]"
"All the netsukes were there, imprisoned for so long. I had packed them in the empty box of my last new razor […]"

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