ナイホク

noun

cutlery; knife and fork

Obsolete loanword from English 'knife and fork'; used in early modern Japanese to refer to Western-style cutlery. Now replaced by カトラリー or ナイフとフォーク.

• 明めい治じ時じ代だいの文ぶん献けんには「ナイホク」という言こと葉ばが見みられる。

  The word ナイホク appears in documents from the Meiji period.