お構かまい

noun

entertainment; hospitality; attentive service

Polite noun for the act of entertaining or looking after guests; most often encountered in the set phrase お構いなく ('please don't go to any trouble').

See also: お構いなく

• 何なんのお構かまいもできませんで、失しつ礼れいいたしました。

  I'm sorry I wasn't able to offer you any proper hospitality.

• お構かまいなく、どうぞご自じ由ゆうに。

  Please don't go to any trouble; make yourself at home.

noun

banishment (Edo-period punishment)

Historical term for a form of banishment during the Edo period; not used in modern Japanese outside of historical contexts.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいには、お構かまいという追つい放ほう刑けいがあった。

  In the Edo period, there was a punishment of banishment called お構い.