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noun
The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold or similar material, highlighting the cracks instead of disguising them.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: kintsukuroi
Antonyms: none provided
History
Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 金継ぎ (kintsugi, literally “golden repair, golden joinery”).
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
