origami

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Definition

noun the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds)

Borrowed from Japanese 折(お)り紙(がみ) (origami), from 折(お)り (ori, “to fold”) + 紙(かみ) (kami, “paper”).

Then the long end was folded into a sort of cloth origami, this one a butterfly, after which it was rolled into a makeshift tube, into which the short end was stuffed. — The Samurai Strategy, Thomas Hoover

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