单词 | tatami matting |
释义 | > as lemmastatami matting 2. Frequently attributive, as tatami mat, tatami matting, tatami room. Also in combinations, as tatami-floored, tatami-matted adjs. ΚΠ 1947 J. Bertram Shadow of War vi. 200 Each man had some two and a half feet by six feet of tatami mat. 1962 Times 25 Jan. 13/4 The man who comes to lay the tatami matting in his house. 1979 S. Coe in I. Webb Compl. Guide Flower & Foliage Arrangem. xvii. 231/2 The room..is quite small, about 3 × 3 m (10 × 10 ft) or four and a half tatami mats. 1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Nov. 749/1 The interior spaces provide everything that the harsh exterior rejects: complex flowing geometries, traditional tatami room, lush furnishing and peaceful, controlled nature. 1980 ‘J. Melville’ Chrysanthemum Chain 127 The tatami-matted floor of Yamamoto's room. 1981 C. Potok Bk. of Lights (1982) v. 162 He had a fish dinner in a lovely tatami-floored Japanese restaurant. 1982 Nature 20 May 181/1 Thus the popular, but erroneous, Japanese view that they have grown taller by adopting the habit of sitting on Western chairs rather than sitting with legs folded underneath the body on a tatami mat. < as lemmas |
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