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sagemonos

sagemonos is the plural of sagemono.

Meaning of sagemono

Noun

sagemono (plural sagemono or sagemonos)

  1. (historical) Any kind of carrying container hung from one's belt or sash (in Japan), such as a coin purse, tobacco pouch, or pillbox.
    • With the downfall of the samurai, for instance, swords as works of art went out of existence. Then those artists had to turn their attention to the embellishment of little articles in common use, such as the sagemono or the hanging things which the Japanese men carried attached to their obis (the...1933 January, Lillian Dow Davidson, “Japan Faces the Rising Sun”, in The Rotarian, volume 42, number 1, Chicago: Rotary International, →ISSN, page 43

Questions about sagemonos

What is sagemonos the plural of?
Sagemonos is the plural of sagemono.

Words near sagemonos in the dictionary

  1. sagelike
  2. sageliness
  3. sagelinesses
  4. sagely
  5. sagemono
  6. sagemonos
  7. sagene
  8. sagenes
  9. sageness
  10. sagenesses
  11. sagenite

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