Etymology

yūkaku

Today it means: A type of legal red-light district in Japan. Full definition →

Japanese 遊廓
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  1. Japanese · borrowed from遊廓
  2. English todayyūkaku

Borrowed from Japanese 遊廓 (yūkaku).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.