グラドル

noun

gravure idol; bikini model; pin-up girl

Colloquial abbreviation of グラビアアイドル. Refers to a (usually teenage) female model who appears in swimsuit or lingerie photo spreads, often in magazines or on DVD. The term is wasei-eigo from 'gravure idol'.

wasei-eigo (Japanese-coined English), from gravure idol

See also: グラビアアイドル

• 彼かの女じょは若わかい頃ころ、グラドルとして雑ざっ誌しに出でていた。

  When she was young, she appeared in magazines as a gravure idol.

• あのグラドルの写しゃ真しん集しゅうが売うれているらしい。

  I hear that gravure idol's photo book is selling well.