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Word: sutorippu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...their boy friends claimed the right to experiment with trial marriages. On mountain trails near Karuizawa and in the beach shacks on the Izu shore, schoolboys and girls were found sleeping together. To their horrified elders, the new mambo-garu (mambo girl) was little better than the new sutorippu, or stripteaser, who was rivaling the traditional geisha as a professional entertainer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Girl from Outside | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

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