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
I'm sorry I wasn't able to offer you any proper hospitality.
Please don't go to any trouble; make yourself at home.
banishment (Edo-period punishment)
Historical term for a form of banishment during the Edo period; not used in modern Japanese outside of historical contexts.
In the Edo period, there was a punishment of banishment called お構い.
Derived from the honorific prefix お and the noun form of the verb 構う (かまう, 'to care for' or 'to attend to'). The historical sense of 'banishment' likely developed from the idea of 'dealing with' or 'disposing of' a person.