へおいびくに

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of へおいびくに – see the following entry.
【屁負比丘尼】
[noun] [from 1563] (historical) a Buddhist nun hired by a high-ranking noble household to accompany a noblewoman in public and take the blame for her farts and other public faults, in the late Muromachi period or Edo period
Alternative spelling
屁負い比丘尼
(This term, へおいびくに (heoibikuni), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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