mizuage

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noun

The coming-of-age ceremony of a maiko, an apprentice geisha, often associated with loss of virginity.

OriginJapanese 水揚げ →
Scrabble 19
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Meanings

nounmizuage (uncountable)
  1. historicaluncountableThe coming-of-age ceremony of a maiko, an apprentice geisha, often associated with loss of virginity.

    “The first time a woman's cave is explored by a man's eel. That is what we call mizuage.”

    1997, Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, Vintage, published 1998, page 232

Origin

  1. Japanese水揚げ
  2. Japanese水揚げ
  3. Englishmizuage

Borrowed from Japanese 水揚げ.

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