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oirans

oirans is the plural of oiran.

Meaning of oiran

Noun

oiran (plural oiran or oirans)

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

Questions about oirans

What is oirans the plural of?
Oirans is the plural of oiran.

Words near oirans in the dictionary

  1. oioxenous
  2. oipe
  3. oipes
  4. OIr
  5. oiran
  6. oirans
  7. Oirat
  8. Oirats
  9. Oird
  10. Oirds
  11. Oireachtas

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