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capsule hotel

noun

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese カプセルホテル (kapuseru hoteru), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from capsule + hotel.

  1. derived from カプセルホテル

Definitions

  1. A type of hotel with a number of very small "rooms" (capsules).

    • "In there?" Yamazaki indicates what he takes to be another door, like the entrance to a hutch, curtained with a soiled square of melon-yellow, foam-cored blanket, the sort of blanket one finds in a capsule hotel.

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