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洋服ダンス (ようふくダンス) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
洋よう 服ふく ダンス also: ようふくタンス · ようふくだんす · ようふくたんす
Meanings 1
noun
wardrobe ; chest of drawers ; dresser
A piece of furniture for storing clothes, especially Western-style clothing. Often a tall chest with drawers and sometimes a hanging section. The word ダンス here is derived from English 'dance' but used in Japanese to mean a chest or cabinet.
新あたら しい 洋よう 服ふく ダンス を 買か う ため に 家か 具ぐ 屋や に 行い っ た 。
I went to a furniture store to buy a new chest of drawers.
Written forms 洋よう 服ふく ダンス
Most common spelling; ダンス is from English 'dance' but here means 'chest' or 'wardrobe'.
洋よう 服ふく タンス
Variant with タンス in katakana; less common but seen.
洋服箪笥
洋よう 服ふく だんす
Mixed kana spelling; used when avoiding katakana or kanji.
洋よう 服ふく たんす
All-hiragana variant of タンス; less common but readable.
ようふくたんす
ようふくだんす
ようふくタンス
Similar words タンス タンス alone is a general chest of drawers, not specifically for clothes. 洋服ダンス explicitly indicates a wardrobe for Western clothes.
クローゼット クローゼット is a built-in closet, while 洋服ダンス is a movable piece of furniture.
Etymology Compound of 洋服 (yōfuku, 'Western clothes') and ダンス (dansu), from English 'dance', which in Japanese came to mean a chest or cabinet, possibly via the resemblance of a chest's movement to dancing or through a separate loanword path. The exact derivation is uncertain.
lunch box, clothes chest
