oiran

From Japanese 花魁, literally ‘flower-leader’.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔɪɹən/

oiran (plural oiran or oirans)

1. A high-status courtesan in Japan.
   • 2002, Donald Richie, The Inland Sea (Stone Bridge Press 2002, p. 192)

     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.

• Arion, Irano-, noria, on air, on-air, raion

oiran

1. third-person plural future indicative form of oir

oiran

1. Rōmaji transcription of おいらん