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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
geisha
noun
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▪ Here the monk was fumbling with the appalled geisha and tearing at the lower half of her kimono.
▪ This was a panel showing a sturdy bald monk leering at a geisha.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
geisha

geisha \gei"sha\ (g[=a]"sh[.a]), n.; pl. geisha (g[=a]"sh[.a]), Geishas (g[=a]"sh[.a]z). [Jap., art person.] A Japanese singing and dancing girl, trained to provide entertainment and company for a man or group of men.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
geisha

1887, "Japanese girl whose profession is to sing and dance to entertain men;" hence, loosely, "prostitute," from Japanese, literally "person accomplished in the social arts," from gei "art, performance" + sha "person." Compare almah, and Athenian auletrides "flute-girls," female musicians who entertained guests at a symposium with music at the start of the party and sex at the end of it.

Wiktionary
geisha

n. A Japanese female entertainer skilled in various arts such as tea ceremony, dancing, singing and calligraphy.

WordNet
geisha

n. a Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing [syn: geisha girl]

Wikipedia
Geisha

(/ˈɡeɪʃə/; Japanese: [ɡeːɕa]), , or are traditional Japanese female entertainers who act as hostesses and whose skills include performing various arts such as classical music, dance, games and conversation, mainly to entertain male customers.

Geisha (band)

Geisha are an Australian pop rock band, which formed in 1983 as Geisha Detail with founding mainstay Chris Doheny on lead vocals and guitar (later also on bass guitar). Their highest charting single, "Part Time Love Affair" (1986), peaked at No. 24 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart. They issued two albums, Geisha (October 1985) and Midnight to Dawn (October 1987), before disbanding in April 1988. Geisha briefly reformed in April 1998 and released a compilation album, The Very Best of Geisha, late that year. Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described their style as "1970s glam rock and early 1980s English New Romantic bands such as Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet". Another version of Geisha was established by Doheny in 2007.

Geisha (disambiguation)

Geisha are traditional Japanese female entertainers.

Geisha may also refer to:

  • Autobiography of a Geisha, a 1957 book originally published as Geisha, kutō no hanshōgai ("Geisha, Half a Lifetime of Pain and Struggle")
  • The Geisha, a 1896 British musical
  • The Geisha (film), a 1983 Japanese film
  • Geisha (band), an Australian rock band
  • Geisha Handicap, an American horse race
  • Geisha Montes de Oca, a Dominican beauty pageant contestant
  • Ulmus parvifolia 'Geisha', a variety of Chinese elm
  • 1047 Geisha, a main-belt asteroid
Geisha (Indonesian group)

Geisha (formerly Jingga) is an Indonesian group formed on 2003 in Pekanbaru, Riau. The band's current line up of Narova Morina Sinaga (Momo), Roby Satria (Roby), Ashari Aulia (Nard), Ahmad Rasyid (Aan) and Rahmad Ramadhan (Dhan). The group were garnered fame with single "Jika Cinta Dia" and "Takkan Pernah Ada".

Usage examples of "geisha".

Even the most brilliant of geisha could rarely blend the two into a single look.

Indeed, his smooth skin, long lashes, and delicately shaped lips would have improved the appearance of any of the geisha present.

Heiko passed her shamisen to the other geisha and came to sit beside Genji.

Where geisha and sleeping arrangements are concerned, I must most humbly claim the greater expertise.

Most women, including the most practiced geisha of the first rank, tended to become less attractive when excessively intoxicated.

While many of her fellow geisha had grown much less formal in behavior as they had grown less sober, Heiko had become more prim.

Mayonaka no Heiko, a famous geisha in her time, to America in the same year.

By the time they got there, Tsuda was certain his manly parts had suffered such a battering against the hard saddle that he would not be able to attempt felicitous contact with geisha ever again.

The geisha house had risen to considerable regional prominence in recent years, and was reputed to rival the best in Edo and Kyoto.

Perhaps Great Lords like Genji and beautiful geisha like Lady Heiko were reborn in new, exciting manifestations in exotic, distant lands.

Even if he was the child of a geisha, he was a qualified male heir, and Genji had no other at present.

And even though he had apparently uncovered a vital secret about Genji, possibly touching on the missing geisha, Heiko.

Genji, a Peer of the Realm, Minister without Portfolio in the government of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Mutsuhito, former Great Lord of Akaoka Domain, lover of geisha and missionary and helpless murderer of both, smiled that slight, self-mocking smile that was so often misunderstood, and walked calmly toward the fulfillment of his vision.

In addition to the ubiquitous geisha, there were now the two unfortunate young women who had recently entered a most degrading slavery in his household as concubines.

If a child is born to a geisha or concubine, I could perhaps convince myself that what I saw was no vision, but only a dream, as you say.