Definitions for netsukes

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netsukes ne·tsu·ke

Spelling: [net-skee, -skey; Japanese ne-tsoo- Netsukes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in netsukes (eeknsstu).

Definitions for netsukes

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 netsukes

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

Examples for netsukes

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.

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