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mizuage

mizuage noun: the coming-of-age ceremony of a maiko, an apprentice geisha, often associated with loss of virginity.

Noun

mizuage (uncountable)

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

Origin of mizuage

Borrowed from Japanese 水揚げ.

Questions about mizuage

What does mizuage mean?
Mizuage means the coming-of-age ceremony of a maiko, an apprentice geisha, often associated with loss of virginity.
What part of speech is mizuage?
Mizuage is a noun.

Words near mizuage in the dictionary

  1. Mizraim
  2. Mizraimic
  3. Miztec
  4. Miztecs
  5. mizu shobai
  6. mizuage
  7. mizuame
  8. Mizue
  9. Mizuguchi
  10. Mizuguchis
  11. mizuhiki

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