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Example sentences for: geisha

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These were the forerunners of the geisha — literally “accomplished person” — with a beauty and refinement that the merchants did not seek in their wives, whom they valued for their childbearing and good housekeeping.
Your curiosity and patience will inevitably reward you with a glimpse of a genuine geisha or maiko (apprentice geisha), the copious layers of her opulent — and unimaginably heavy — silk kimono rustling as she hurries to an appointment or a training session.
On 18 March the Golden Dragon dance is held at Tokyo’s Senso-ji Temple (in Asakusa), accompanied by a ceremonial carriage bearing several geisha playing traditional musical instruments.
He was happy to disguise his first wife as a geisha (in a painting hanging elsewhere at the Museum of Fine Arts), but there are no prostitutes dressed up as odalisques in his work, no probings into the murky secret lives of Parisians.
For antique furniture and miscellaneous items, Kyoto’s famous geisha district of Gion has one of the finest selections in Japan.