局つぼね女じょ郎ろう

noun

lowest-class prostitute (Edo period)

Historical term for a prostitute of the lowest rank in the Edo-period pleasure quarters. Not used in modern Japanese outside historical contexts.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、局つぼね女じょ郎ろうは遊ゆう郭かくで最もっとも身み分ぶんの低ひくい遊ゆう女じょだった。

  In the Edo period, tsubone-jorō were the lowest-ranking prostitutes in the pleasure quarters.