Definitions
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- noun A moist
towel for cleaning the hands, offered tocustomers inJapanese restaurants andbars .
Etymologies
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Japanese
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Examples
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Like the excellent custom of handing out hot towels called oshibori to customers who've just sat down to order -- there's nothing that makes you feel positive about a restaurant like cleaning your hands (and face, although it's bad manners) with a steaming hot towel.
Anime Nano! 2010
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Your napkin (if you're not using an oshibori in a case) goes on the bottom middle, followed by the flattest object (usually the bento box).
unknown title 2008
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Rounded objects (fruit, drinks, oshibori and hashi cases, and rounded ice packs) are stacked above.
unknown title 2008
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