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fabric scissors; tailor's shears; dressmaking scissors
Large, heavy scissors designed for cutting cloth cleanly along a marked line. Used in sewing, dressmaking, and tailoring.
裁ちばさみで布を切る。
I cut the fabric with tailor's shears.
紙を切ると裁ちばさみが切れなくなる。
If you cut paper with them, fabric scissors lose their sharpness.
母は裁縫箱の中から裁ちばさみを取り出した。
My mother took the fabric scissors out of the sewing box.
From 裁つ (to cut out, to tailor) + はさみ (scissors). The verb 裁つ specifically means cutting cloth or leather to a pattern.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 裁ちばさみで布を切る: to cut fabric with tailor's shears
- 裁ちばさみを研ぐ: to sharpen the fabric scissors
- 裁縫用の裁ちばさみ: dressmaking scissors
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 糸切りばさみ: thread snips — small spring-loaded scissors for cutting thread
- ピンキングばさみ: pinking shears — zigzag-edged scissors for cloth
- 爪切りばさみ: nail scissors — small scissors for trimming nails
USAGE NOTE:
A traditional rule of sewing is never to use 裁ちばさみ on paper, as paper dulls the blade and ruins the clean cut needed for cloth.