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Oiran vs Geisha - What's the difference?

oiran | geisha |

As a verb oiran

is .

As a noun geisha is

geisha.

oiran

English

(wikipedia oiran)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • a high-status courtesan
  • :* 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)

    • Anagrams

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    geisha

    English

    (wikipedia geisha)

    Alternative forms

    * geisya

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A Japanese female entertainer skilled in various arts such as tea ceremony, dancing, singing and calligraphy.

    • Synonyms

    * geisha girl * geiko * maiko

    References

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