burusera

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ブルセラ (burusera), from a combination of ブルマー (burumā, “bloomers”) + セーラー服 (sērā-fuku, “sailor suit”), from English bloomers and sailor respectively.

Noun

burusera (uncountable)

1. (sex) Girls' used underwear and/or school uniforms, which are bought and sold by sexual fetishists.
   • 1994, Japan. Keisatsuchō, White paper on police ... (excerpt), page 71:

     Products on sale at a burusera shop

   • 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel, Penguin, →ISBN:

     […] say I looked like a giant prehistoric squid, squirming and oozing ink from my ink sac in a futile attempt to confuse my predators. Next to the video was a link to a burusera fetish¹⁴¹ site where hentais could bid on my blood-stained panties.
     ¹⁴¹ […] schoolgirl uniform fetish

   • 2015, Clive Davies, Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Won't Write about, SCB Distributors, →ISBN:

     Includes a selling knickers to a burusera shop scene, a hilariously cheap “disco” set, but not enough cumsoaked schoolgirls for this reviewer.

   • 2018, John Whittier Treat, The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 284:

     Meanwhile there are rumors a dejected Takuboku is not dead but now running a burusera (used panties) fetish boutique in Shibuya.

Translations

girls' used underwear and uniform

• Japanese: ブルセラ (burusera)

Japanese

Romanization

burusera

1. Rōmaji transcription of ブルセラ