Etymology

scherenschnitte

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Today it means: An art of papercutting, cutting continuous paper designs, which began in Switzerland and Germany in the 1500s and was brought to Colonial America in the 1700s by immigrants who settled primarily in Pennsylvania. Full definition →

German Scherenschnitte
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  1. German · borrowed fromScherenschnitte
  2. English todayscherenschnitte

From German Scherenschnitte, plural of Scherenschnitt (literally “scissor cut”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.