[
US
/ˈɡeɪʃə/
]
[ UK /dʒˈeɪʃɐ/ ]
[ UK /dʒˈeɪʃɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing
How To Use geisha In A Sentence
- Well, not to be outdone, Tokyo has what you might call guardian geishas.
- Over the tagged panels, using his own paper stencils that are unique to each painting, Fujita creates intricate compositions, which feature samurais, geishas, dragons, tigers and fish, using spraypaint, paint marker and Mean Streak, in striking colors. Bill Bush: Made in L.A.: This Artweek.LA (October 10-16, 2011)
- To better understand the role geishas occupy in Japanese society, she became one, the only non-Japanese woman to do so.
- There she lives under the watchful eye of the proprietress, the geisha house ‘mother’, even stricter than her own mother.
- Students in the class can learn from real geisha how to put on kimono and make-up as well as how to dance on '' tatami '' mats at the Japanese-style inn Tokaikan during a single-day course for 12,800 yen or a two-day course for 18,800 yen. Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion
- The job of waiting up to bow and welcome the geisha home almost always fell to the most junior of the "cocoons" — as the young geisha-in-training were often called. Memoirs of a Geisha
- Geisha parties are considerably more exclusive and expensive than the grandest British gentlemen's clubs.
- The geisha myth is largely impervious to the history and reality of the lives of actual geisha. The Times Literary Supplement
- The 11-year-old had tried out her hand in drawing two Japanese geishas.
- There's a hint of gipsy in the long, layered skirt; of the geisha in the wrap-over kimono tops with trailing butterfly sleeves and of the beach babe in the long, floaty kaftan.