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单词 skin lady
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skin lady
skin lady n. [after Japanese sukin redii < sukin skin, condom ( < English skin (compare sense 13b) + redii ( < English lady : see lady n.); compare office lady n. at office n. Compounds 3.] (in Japan) a woman who sells condoms from door to door; now chiefly historical.
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1975 Forbes 15 Oct. 68/3 Japanese companies employ so-called ‘skin’ saleswomen to sell condoms door-to-door.]
1983 S. Coleman Family Planning in Japanese Society 202 The three gross of condoms that the ‘skin lady’ had sold him.
2002 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 19 May 40 People needing contraception have traditionally relied on condoms, often sold door-to-door by saleswomen known as ‘skin ladies’.
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