矢や場ば女おんな

noun

prostitute in a brothel disguised as an archery range

Historical term for a woman working in an Edo-period establishment that presented itself as an archery range but functioned as a brothel. The word is archaic and not used in modern Japanese.

See also: 矢場 (やば)

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいには、矢や場ば女おんなと呼よばれる女じょ性せいたちが、矢や場ばという名なの遊ゆう郭かくで働はたらいていた。

  In the Edo period, women called yaba-onna worked in brothels that went by the name of yaba (archery ranges).