oiran
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[edit] Etymology
From Japanese 花魁, literally ‘flower-leader’.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɔɪrən/
[edit] Noun
oiran (plural oiran or oirans)
- a high-status courtesan
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- 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)
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[edit] Verb
oiran
- Third-person plural future indicative form of oir.
