oiran

See also: oíran and oirán

English

Etymology

From Japanese 花魁, literally ‘flower-leader’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔɪɹən/

Noun

oiran (plural oiran or oirans)

1. A high-status courtesan in Japan.
   • 2002, Donald Richie, The Inland Sea (Stone Bridge Press 2002, p. 192)

     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.

Anagrams

• Arion, Irano-, noria, on air, on-air, raion

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Catalan

Verb

oiran

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Japanese

Romanization

oiran

1. Rōmaji transcription of おいらん