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kotatsu

kotatsu noun: a knee-high table with a heater inside which is used with a coverlet during winter.

kotatsu: a knee-high table with a heater inside which is used with a coverlet during winter
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Noun

kotatsu (plural kotatsu or kotatsus)

  1. A knee-high table with a heater inside which is used with a coverlet during winter.
    • I dreamed my way through cold winters with my family at the kotatsu, with my friends at their kotatsus, huddled under my futon alone in the cold nights.2012 summer, Ed Wright, “Fiction: An end to hope”, in Julianne Schultz, editor, The Novella Project (GriffithREVIEW; 38), Melbourne, Vic.: Text Publishing, →ISBN, section 1, pages 149–150

kotatsu meaning in Indonesian

kotatsu in Indonesian

a knee-high table with an electric foot-warmer
kotatsu

Forms of kotatsu

pluralkotatsu
pluralkotatsus

Origin of kotatsu

From Japanese 炬燵 (kotatsu).

Questions about kotatsu

What does kotatsu mean?
Kotatsu means a knee-high table with a heater inside which is used with a coverlet during winter.
What is kotatsu in Indonesian?
Kotatsu in Indonesian is kotatsu. See Kotatsu meaning in Indonesian.
What part of speech is kotatsu?
Kotatsu is a noun.
What is the plural of kotatsu?
The plural of kotatsu is kotatsu.

Words near kotatsu in the dictionary

  1. Kotarskis
  2. Kotas
  3. Kotases
  4. kotataberries
  5. kotataberry
  6. kotatsu
  7. kotatsus
  8. Kotava
  9. Kotayk
  10. kotch
  11. kotched

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