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单词 mousmé
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mousmén.

Brit. /ˈmuːsmeɪ/, U.S. /ˌmusˈmeɪ/
Forms: 1800s– moosme, 1800s– moosmee, 1800s– moosmie, 1800s– mousmé, 1800s– mousmee, 1800s– musmee, 1800s– musumee, 1900s– mousmée, 1900s– musme, 1900s– musume. N.E.D. (1908) also records forms musmé, musumë, musumé.
Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese musume.
Etymology: < Japanese musume unmarried young woman (8th cent. in sense ‘daughter’; 1603 in Vocabulario da Lingoa de Iapam) < musu to be born, come into being + me female. For the loss of the partially devoiced medial vowel compare moxa n. Compare French musmé (1880 or earlier), mousmé (1887 or earlier; also in the extended sense ‘mistress’). Compare moose n.3The form musume is found as a transcription of the Japanese word in an English context (e.g. in scholarly discussion of Japanese drama).
Now historical.
A Japanese girl or young (esp. unmarried) woman; a Japanese waitress, maid, or mistress. Cf. moose n.3
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mousmé1861
1861 C. P. Hodgson Residence at Nagasaki & Hakodate xii. 243Moosme’ is the name for a daughter or maid.
1876 G. Campbell Log Lett. from Challenger vi. 291 We clap our hands, and up comes running a nice little mousmee.
1880 H. C. St. John Wild Coasts Nipon 217 The gentle kindness and pretty ways of the musumees.
1892 E. Arnold Potiphar's Wife 62 The Musmee has brown velvet eyes Curtained with satin, sleepily...The Musmee has a small brown face, ‘Musk-melon seed’ its perfect shape.
1905 Longman's Mag. July 228 A weeping mousmee brought the news to O Takke San as she lay in her room.
1921 J. Galsworthy To Let i. vii. 72 With the white flower still in her hair, she looked like a mousmé, sitting cross-legged on her bed.
1971 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 31 354 A month after arriving in Yokohama [in 1862], he wrote in his diary: ‘Colonel Neale keeps the language students in the Legation so they can't keep musmes.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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