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单词 shoji
释义

shoji

noun

sho·​ji ˈshō-(ˌ)jē How to pronounce shoji (audio)
plural shoji also shojis
: a paper screen serving as a wall, partition, or sliding door

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The original kitchen cabinetry remained but was outfitted with new, shoji-style doors. Nancy Ngo, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021 Like baby gates, these have become increasingly stylish and sophisticated, with designs ranging from warm woods to hand painted shoji-style screens to metals in hot designer finishes. Janice Costa, House Beautiful, 21 Apr. 2021 Tucked in a corner by the vast picture windows, guarded from the summer sun by shoji screens, a chiming Sonambient sculpture made in the early 1970s by the furniture designer Harry Bertoia, a Knoll colleague, stands quietly, waiting to be touched. Michael Snyder, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2020 Turning right takes you to the connected living and dining rooms, with their Brazilian cherry floors, vaulted ceilings, clerestory windows and shoji doors topped with lattice-wood inserts. Julie Lasky, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020 Rooms are spacious and serene, with shoji sliding doors, an enormous futon bed, and a bathroom that could be a spa. Anna Chittenden, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2020 The design has Asian elements, with Japanese-style shoji doors and a Japanese Zen garden off the master bedroom suite. Nancy Keates, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020 In the room, viewers are told to create peepholes in the walls, an artistic interpretation of a rural Korean ritual where wedding-night consummations were watched by villagers who silently rubbed a hole into the shoji with a wet finger. Tony Bravo, SFChronicle.com, 3 Nov. 2019 Editor’s Suite Choice: Be sure to ask for one of the 12 Suite Rooms and marvel at the intricate Japanese craftsmanship that includes walls of rosewood and maple, shoji paper screens and sliding glass doors etched with flowers and birds. Danielle Pointdujour, Essence, 29 July 2019 See More

Word History

Etymology

Japanese shōji

First Known Use

1880, in the meaning defined above

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