nodome

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noun

A crossing hitch, as used in Japanese rope bondage.

OriginJapanese の止め →
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Meanings

nounnodome (plural nodome or nodomes)

plural nodomes

  1. BDSMA crossing hitch, as used in Japanese rope bondage.

    And then I'm going to go around her chest once and make a nodome.

    2022, Marika Roux, Frictions Lexicon, Shibari Study
    2 more examples

    If you are going straight up, use a Crossing Hitch (a.k.a. "Munter Hitch" or "Nodome").

    2023, Lazarus Redmayne, Kajira Blue, “Building Blocks: Junctions”, in Foundations of Rope Bondage, →ISBN, page 270

    One way to think about half hitches and nodomes is to think of nodomes as a half hitch plus another fold around the line that is being crossed.

    2023 October 30, Anton Martin, “Butterfly TK”, in Shibari Study

Origin

  1. Japaneseの止め“の-shaped stop”
  2. Englishnodome

Borrowed from Japanese の止め (“の-shaped stop”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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