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geisha
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun geisha has 1 sense
- geisha(n = noun.person) geisha girl - a Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing; Array is a kind of japanese, nipponese, adult female, woman
CIDE DICTIONARY
geisha, n. [Jap., art person.].
A Japanese singing and dancing girl, trained to provide entertainment and company for a man or group of men. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
geisha, n. (pl. same or geishas)
1 a Japanese hostess trained in entertaining men with dance and song.
2 a Japanese prostitute.
1 a Japanese hostess trained in entertaining men with dance and song.
2 a Japanese prostitute.
Etymology
Jap.
THESAURUS
geisha
artist, artiste, ballerina, ballet dancer, ballet girl, ballroom dancer, belly dancer, burlesque queen, choral dancer, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, clog dancer, conjurer, coryphee, dancer, dancing girl, danseur noble, danseuse, ecdysiast, entertainer, exotic dancer, female impersonator, figurant, figurante, geisha girl, guisard, guiser, heel-and-toe dancer, hoofer, hula girl, impersonator, magician, mountebank, mummer, musician, nautch girl, peeler, performer, prestidigitator, public entertainer, show girl, singer, square-dancer, stripper, stripteaser, stripteuse, terpsichorean, vaudevillian, vaudevillist
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