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Origami

2 stages from Japanese to English.

Today it means the traditional Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes
1
Stage 1 of 2
ori + kami
Japanese · medieval
"paper folding"
combined "ori" (fold) and "kami" (paper)
2
Stage 2 of 2
origami
English · 1900s
"the art of paper folding"
adopted directly from Japanese
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