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单词 mizuage
释义

mizuage

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 水揚げ.

Noun

mizuage (uncountable)

  1. (historical) The coming-of-age ceremony of a maiko, an apprentice geisha, often associated with loss of virginity.
    • 1997, Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, Vintage 1998, p. 232:
      “The first time a woman's cave is explored by a man's eel. That is what we call mizuage.”

Usage notes

  • There is some dispute over to what extent (if at all) loss of virginity was traditionally involved with the ceremony.

Japanese

Romanization

mizuage

  1. Rōmaji transcription of みずあげ
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