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‖ amado|ˈamado| [Jap., f. ame rain + to door.] One of a set of shutters on the outer side of a Japanese house. Freq. collect.
1880I. L. Bird Unbeaten Tracks in Japan I. xiii. 135 They rise at daylight..open the amado—wooden shutters which..box in the whole house at night. 1890B. H. Chamberlain Things Japanese 24 The sides of the house, composed at night of wooden sliding doors, called amado, is stowed away in boxes during the day-time. 1899M. C. Fraser Custom of Country 89 You must get him to come inside then shut the amados. 1938D. T. Suzuki Zen Buddhism ii. i. 210 The falling leaves striking shower-like against the roof and amado. 1959R. Kirkbride Tamiko xix. 152 A cabin whose face was blind with locked amado. |