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noun (oiran)
  1. a high-status courtesan
  • 2002: The 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)
Etymology: From Japanese èé, literally "flower-leader".

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