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English

Etymology
From Japanese ��, literally �flower-leader�.

Pronunciation
IPA|/��ɪr�n/

Noun
en-noun|oiran

1. a high-status courtesan

#:*2002: The oiran of Mitarai was not like the geisha. Like the great eighteenth-century courtesans of Europe, she knew who and what she was and turned wanton provocation into an art. � Donald Richie, The Inland Sea (Stone Bridge Press 2002, p. 192)

ru:oiran

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