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Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 金継ぎ (kintsugi, literally “golden repair, golden joinery”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
kintsugi
kin·tsu·giToday it means: 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. Full definition →