Definitions for netsuke

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netsuke ne·tsu·ke

Spelling: [net-skee, -skey; Japanese ne-tsoo- Netsuke is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in netsuke (eeknstu).

Definitions for netsuke

noun

1. (in Japanese art) a small figure of ivory, wood, metal, or ceramic, originally used as a buttonlike fixture on a man's sash, from which small personal belongings were hung.

Origin of netsuke

1880-85; Japanese, equivalent to ne root + tsuke (earlier tuke(y) attach

Examples for netsuke

The netsuke has, of course, no place in this form of the tabako-ire.

The netsuke and the pipe, with all that pertained to it, were for the commoners what the sword-hilt and guard were for the gentry.

In order to suspend this from the girdle there was employed a kind of button or toggle—the netsuke.