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hara-kiri (n.)
"suicide by disembowelment," 1856, from Japanese, literally "belly-cutting," the colloquial word for what is formally called
seppuku
"cut open the stomach;" from
hara
"belly" +
kiri
"to cut." Sometimes erroneously written
hari-kari
.
