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A conversation professional whose job is to make you feel briefly, expensively fascinating.
means A highly trained Japanese performing artist skilled in traditional music, dance, and conversation, hired to entertain guests at social gatherings.
from From Japanese 芸者 (geisha), literally 'person of the arts' — gei meaning 'art' or 'performance' and sha meaning 'person.' The term originally applied to entertainers of either sex, including male jesters, before becoming associated almost entirely with women by the 18th-19th century. The word's literal humility — just 'art person' — belies the years of rigorous training in dance, music, and social grace the role actually demands.
- not that
- geisha means artist, not escort, by design
- training
- years mastering dance, music, and small talk
- rarity
- fewer than 1,000 remain in japan today
- etymology
- gei means art, sha means person