English

Noun

oiran ‎(plural oiran or oirans)

1. a high-status courtesan

   • 2002: The oiran of Mitarai was not like the geisha. Like the great eighteenth-century courtesans of Europe, she knew who and what she was and turned wanton provocation into an art. — Donald Richie, The Inland Sea (Stone Bridge Press 2002, p. 192)

Anagrams

• noria, on air, on-air, raion

Catalan

Verb

oiran

1. third-person plural future indicative form of oir

Japanese

Romanization

oiran

1. rōmaji reading of おいらん