mousmé
English
Alternative forms
- mousmée
- musume
Etymology
From Japanese 娘 (musume, “daughter, girl”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmuːsmeɪ/
Noun
mousmé (plural mousmés)
- (historical) A Japanese young woman or mistress.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, page 628:
- “Hello, Kit.” She stared a moment through Miss Tsurigane. “Who's the mousmée?”
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French
Noun
mousmé f (plural mousmés)
- mousmé
Further reading
- “mousmé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.