origami
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++o·ri·ga·mi /ˌɒrɪˈɡɑːmi $ ˌɔː-/ noun [uncountable] 
DGOthe Japanese art of folding paper to make attractive objects 〔日本的〕折纸艺术
DGOthe Japanese art of folding paper to make attractive objects 〔日本的〕折纸艺术Examples from the Corpus
origami• It twisted into an origami boat and sailed off towards a sewer inlet.• Tortoise-necked, he reads the price aloud and fingers do their automatic origami.• An analogy is origami - paper folding.• And just what, you ask, is origami anyway?• It started much smaller with just origami insects.• It seems pretty obvious they both attend the same origami evening class.• To follow the analogy with origami, we need to know where to fold the paper.Origin origami (1900-2000) Japanese “fold paper”o·ri·ga·mi nounChineseSyllable
make art folding paper Japanese to the of Corpus
origami
o‧ri‧ga‧mi /ˌɒrɪˈɡɑːmi $ ˌɔː-/
noun [uncountable]
the Japanese art of folding paper to make attractive objects
o‧ri‧ga‧mi /ˌɒrɪˈɡɑːmi $ ˌɔː-/
noun [uncountable] Date: 1900-2000
Language: Japanese
Origin: 'fold paper'
Language: Japanese
Origin: 'fold paper'
the Japanese art of folding paper to make attractive objects