English Explanatory Dictionary

maki-e

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A style of Japanese lacquerware made with gold or silver sprinkled on wet lacquer.
  2. An object decorated with this style of lacquer.

Word forms

maki-e

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 蒔絵 (maki e, literally “sown picture; scatter picture”).

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on M Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary