洋よう妾しょう

noun

Westerner's mistress

Obsolete derogatory term for a Japanese woman who was the mistress of a Western man, especially in the late Edo to early Meiji period. Compare ラシャメン (sense 2).

See also: ラシャめん

• 幕ばく末まつの開かい港こう地ちでは、洋よう妾しょうと呼よばれる女じょ性せいたちがいた。

  In the treaty ports at the end of the Edo period, there were women called 洋妾 (Westerners' mistresses).