Example sentences for: geisha

How can you use “geisha” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • There is no shortage of stereotypes: the beleaguered workaholic salaryman, the exotic geisha, the long-suffering Japanese housewife.

  • Here you will find magnificent temples, shrines, and pagodas; exquisite Zen gardens; sumptuous traditional feasts; and, of course, that most alluring and misunderstood of creatures — the kimono-clad geisha.

  • On the eastern edge of town, north of the Umeno Hashi bridge across the Asano River, is the old geisha district, slightly more rundown than Nagamachi but no less quaint.

  • Because of the tremendous vogue of such images, collected and reworked by Edgar Degas and Claude Monet and Mary Cassatt and then adopted in our own popular culture, we recognize immediately the polymorphous personae of the floating world--the sumo wrestlers, the geisha and her admirers (see Kitagawa Utamaro, The Mosquito Net , circa 1797), and the swashbuckling samurai.


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