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美粧院 (びしょういん) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

美び粧しょう院いん

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Meanings

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noun

beauty salon; beauty parlour

dated term

Dated term for a beauty salon; modern Japanese almost always uses 美容院 (びよういん) instead. This word may still appear in older signs or texts.

See also: 美容院

昔むかしは「美び粧しょう院いん」という看かん板ばんをよく見みかけた。
In the past, signs reading 美粧院 were commonly seen.

Kanji

美beauty, beautiful
粧cosmetics, adorn (one's person)
院Inst., institution, temple

Similar words

美び容よう院いん
The modern standard word for a beauty salon. 美粧院 is an older, now rarely used synonym.

Etymology

Composed of 美 (beauty), 粧 (adorn, make-up), and 院 (institution). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but it was likely coined as a formal term for a beauty salon, later replaced by 美容院.

祖そ母ぼは若わかい頃ころ、美び粧しょう院いんで髪かみを整ととのえてもらっていたそうだ。

My grandmother says she used to have her hair done at a beauty parlour when she was young.