Etymology

kinbaku

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Today it means: A Japanese style of bondage that involves tying a person up using simple yet visually intricate patterns, usually with several pieces of thin rope. Full definition →

Japanese 緊縛
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from緊縛“tight binding”
  2. English todaykinbaku

Borrowed from Japanese 緊縛 (“tight binding”).

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