Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The art or process, originating in Japan, of folding paper into shapes representing flowers and birds, for example.
- noun A decorative object made by folding paper.
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- noun uncountable The
Japanese art ofpaper folding . - noun countable A piece of art made by folding paper.
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- noun the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Akira Yoshizawa, who is considered to be the man who elevated origami from a craft to an art form.
George Heymont: There's Art Right At Your Fingertips! George Heymont 2010
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Akira Yoshizawa, who is considered to be the man who elevated origami from a craft to an art form.
George Heymont: There's Art Right at Your Fingertips! George Heymont 2010
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Akira Yoshizawa, who is considered to be the man who elevated origami from a craft to an art form.
George Heymont: There's Art Right At Your Fingertips! George Heymont 2010
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As in origami light for outdoors this subject and certainly like combining emotion and light.
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JUST COOL Design Blog on 20 Aug 2008 at 7: 36 pm # love the clean minimalist lines – and its folded like a piece of paper – they should call it origami house -
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Instead of writing, I'm trying to fold something in origami that doesn't look like an amoeba.
Spring Break joshenglish 2008
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I can't think of anything sufficiently snarky to say about this one, so I'll just let the phrase origami spaceplane stand on its own.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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Is there some kind of rule in origami that it should be made of a single sheet of paper?
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I will wrap little cones of it in origami paper to give to my colleagues back in Andijon.
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I will wrap little cones of it in origami paper to give to my colleagues back in Andijon.
Wanderlustress: 2004
immerbeta commented on the word origami
The word is Japanese, literally meaning to fold (oru) paper (kami).
December 2, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word origami
折り紙 = origami = paper-folding
折り神 = origami = God-folding
December 3, 2008
sarra commented on the word origami
!
December 3, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word origami
JM was sad to hear that his favourite online origami store has folded.
May 31, 2011