Crossword clues for inro
inro
- Small case
- Japanese waist pouch
- Small lacquer box
- Small box
- Perfume box
- Oriental case
- Obi pendant
- Kimono case
- Japanese waiste pouch
- Japanese waist purse
- Japanese vanity case
- Japanese tote
- Japanese money belt
- Japanese medicine case
- Japanese equivalent of a purse
- Japanese cosmetics box (anagram of NOIR)
- Japanese cosmetics box
- Japanese chatelaine
- Japanese carryall
- Geisha's receptacle
- Geisha's ornamental box
- Decorative Japanese carrying case
- Box hung from an obi
- Obi accessory
- Geisha's case
- Japanese girdle box
- Geisha's receptacle for perfumes
- Obi attachment
- Group of nested boxes
- Japanese lacquer box
- Small Japanese box
- Geisha's ornamental container
- Purse for a geisha
- Small Japanese receptacle
- Japanese box set
- Geisha's girdle box
- Japanese receptacle
- Set of receptacles
- Japanese purse
- Japanese type of purse
- Set of boxes
- It's worn on an obi
- Nested boxes
- Japanese case
- Cio-Cio-San's set of boxes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inro \In"ro\, n. [Jap. inr[=o]; in seal + r[=o] box.] A small closed receptacle or set of receptacles of hard material, as lacquered wood, iron, bronze, or ivory, used by the Japanese to hold medicines, perfumes, and the like, and carried in the girdle. It is usually secured by a silk cord by which the wearer may grasp it, which cord passes through an ornamental button or knob called a netsuke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Japanese, from Chinese yin "seal" + lung "basket."
Wiktionary
n. a small decorative box, hung from the sash of a kimono, for holding small objects
Wikipedia
An is a traditional Japanese case for holding small objects, suspended from the obi.
Usage examples of "inro".
A5 he slipped the telephone inro his shirt pocket, he saw that Major Gen- eral H.
In the moment that she jumped the couch she had heard the snick of the bolt driving a round inro the barrel chamber as Mesquita pressed the release stud.