へおひびくに

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of へおひびくに – see the following entry.
【屁負比丘尼へおいびくに】
[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, へおひびくに (feofibikuni), is a historical kana spelling of the above term.)
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