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kendamas

kendamas is the plural of kendama.

Meaning of kendama

Noun

kendama (plural kendamas)

  1. A traditional Japanese toy with an attached ball that can be caught in any of three cups or on a spike.
    • An especially haunting work, “If the Moment Came,” is a waist-high black box with a top made of wired glass and a murky interior that shows a looping video of a hand playing with a kendama, a Japanese toy featuring a wooden handle and a small ball.
      The artist, Chloë Cheuk, said that she created the...2017 March 30, Mike Ives, “As Hong Kong Ponders Its Future Under Beijing, Politics Infuses Its Art”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2021

Questions about kendamas

What is kendamas the plural of?
Kendamas is the plural of kendama.

Words near kendamas in the dictionary

  1. Kendall rank correlation coefficient
  2. Kendall rank correlation coefficients
  3. Kendall tau distance
  4. Kendall's notation
  5. kendama
  6. kendamas
  7. kendang
  8. kendangs
  9. Kendari
  10. Kendell
  11. Kendells

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