Etymology

makimono

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Today it means: A type of Japanese hand scroll which unrolls horizontally, or laterally on a flat surface. Full definition →

Japanese 巻物
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  1. Japanese · borrowed from巻物
  2. English todaymakimono

Borrowed from Japanese 巻物 (makimono, literally “rolled thing”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.