京きょう烏がらす

noun

Kyoto merchant

Archaic term for a merchant from Kyoto, often with connotations of shrewdness or worldliness.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、京きょう烏がらすは商しょう才さいに長たけていると見みなされていた。

  In the Edo period, Kyoto merchants were regarded as having a keen business sense.

noun

well-informed and loose-lipped Kyotoite

Archaic, often derogatory term for a Kyoto native who is knowledgeable about current affairs but indiscreet; related to 京雀.

See also: 京雀

• 「京きょう烏がらす」は、京きょう雀すずめと同どう様ように、おしゃべりな京きょう都と人じんを指さす古ふるい言こと葉ばだ。

  Like 京雀, 京烏 is an old word for a talkative Kyotoite.