科負とがおい比丘尼びくに

noun

female servant hired to take the blame for a noblewoman's misdeeds and flatulence

Historical term for a servant who would accept responsibility for a noblewoman's social embarrassments, including passing gas, in pre-modern Japan.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの大おお奥おくでは、科とが負おい比び丘く尼にという役やく割わりの女じょ性せいがいたと伝つたえられる。

  It is said that in the inner palace of the Edo period, there were women serving as togaoi-bikuni, who took the blame for noblewomen's misdeeds.