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Definition of Tatamis
1. tatami [n] - See also: tatami
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tatamis
Literary usage of Tatamis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Budget of Letters from Japan: Reminiscences of Work and Travel in Japan by Arthur Collins Maclay (1886)
"He became exhilarated, inspired, — nay, almost infatuated with the desire to
bounce down and root over the tatamis like a wild rhinoceros. ..."
2. The Far East (1906)
"At night a not particularly thick mattress, filled with raw cotton, or some other
soft stuff, is spread on the tatamis, and upon it, rolled in a quilt, ..."
3. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... were equall in sitting on the tatamis; the chiefe Lords of Japon were present;
and after the taste of their * Chia, ..."
4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... were equall in sitting on the tatamis; the chiefe Lords of Japon were present;
and after the taste of their * Chia, ..."
5. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1893)
"They make tatamis *" out of straw, and fashion their upper garments out of
miscellaneous skins, using patterned skins for trimming. They have bows, arrows, ..."
6. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... were equall in sitting on the tatamis ; the chiefe Lords of Japon were present ;
and after the taste of their * Chia, ..."
7. The Awakening of the East: Siberia by Pierre Leroy-Beaulieu (1900)
"... the paper screens which form the facade of most of the houses are removed,
the artisans seated at their tatamis, working by the light of an Edison lamp. ..."
8. The Awakening of the East: Siberia by Pierre Leroy-Beaulieu (1901)
"Another very striking feature is the scrupulous cleanliness which reigns in these
dwellings, whose only furniture are tatamis, or thick straw mats, ..."
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