mama-san
See also: mamasan
English
Noun
mama-san (plural mama-sans)
- A mother, in Japan or East Asia. [from 1900s]
- A woman in a position of authority, especially the madam of a geisha bar. [from 1940s]
- 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 340:
- ‘I had a last go at the film festival, hoping those Thai mammasans would stir you up with some juice kiddy-porn.’
- 2011, Jonathan Watts, The Guardian, 15 Mar 2011:
- "We just get one very small meal – a single rice ball or piece of bread," said Mieko Kono, a hostess bar "mama-san" who looks spectacularly out of place in the municipal office, dolled up as she is in her work clothes of leopard-print top and slacks.
- 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 340:
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