やまとなでしこ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of やまとなでしこ – see the following entry.
【大和撫子】
[noun] synonym of 撫子 (nadeshiko, “pink: any flower of the genus Dianthus”).
[noun] Yamato nadeshiko, a woman who possesses the ideal classical Japanese feminine attributes.
(This term, やまとなでしこ (yamatonadeshiko), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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