Definition 2024
daruma
daruma
English
Noun
daruma (plural darumas)
- A spherical Japanese doll
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1988 February 19, Janice Perrone, “A Gloom of Their Own”, in Chicago Reader:- Like a daruma doll, you knock it over and it rights itself.
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2012, A Brief History of Japanese Civilization, page 255:- This combination of piety and fun also accounts for the continued popularity of roly-poly darumas, popular doll-like figures named after Bodhidharma.
