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kintsukuroi

kintsukuroi noun: the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold or similar material, highlighting the cracks instead of disguising them.

Noun

kintsukuroi (uncountable)

  1. The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold or similar material, highlighting the cracks instead of disguising them.
    Synonyms:
    kintsugi

Synonyms of kintsukuroi

Origin of kintsukuroi

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 金繕い (kintsukuroi, literally “golden repair”).

Questions about kintsukuroi

What does kintsukuroi mean?
Kintsukuroi means the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold or similar material, highlighting the cracks instead of disguising them.
What part of speech is kintsukuroi?
Kintsukuroi is a noun.

Words near kintsukuroi in the dictionary

  1. Kintners
  2. kintoplast
  3. Kintore
  4. kintoreite
  5. kintsugi
  6. kintsukuroi
  7. kintype
  8. kintypes
  9. Kintyre
  10. Kintz
  11. Kintzes

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