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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The repeating pattern found in many origami papers, originally applied with wood blocks, but now mainly using silkscreen techniques. uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 千代紙 (ちよがみ, chiyogami, “gaily colored paper”, literally “paper of a thousand worlds”).

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