Definition of Comfort woman

1. Noun. A woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II. "She wrote a book about her harsh experiences as a comfort woman"


Definition of Comfort woman

1. Noun. (idiomatic historical euphemistic) A woman forced, or supposedly recruited, into brothels by the Japanese occupation forces during World War II. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Comfort Woman

comfiest
comfily
comfiness
comfinesses
comfit
comfits
comfiture
comfitures
comfort
comfort break
comfort breaks
comfort food
comfort girls
comfort station
comfort woman (current term)
comfort women
comfort zone
comfort zones
comfortability
comfortable
comfortable in one's own skin
comfortable in one's skin
comfortableness
comfortables
comfortably
comfortably off
comforted
comfortedest
comforter

Literary usage of Comfort woman

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Epistles of Paul: To the by Albert Barnes (1849)
"The apostle designed to comfort woman, or to alleviate the sadness of the picture which he had drawn respecting her condition. (2. ..."

2. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"... might find it comfort- woman who tries after her marriage to able and salutary to deny dressing to 30 look as unsettled and as young as possible, ..."

3. The Hayfield Mower and Scythe of Progress (1904)
"Man makes a worldly sacrifice if he chooses duty's calling instead of the calling of comfort. Woman makes less sacrifice. Woman can afford to work cheaper ..."

4. The Kingdom of the Mind: How to Promote Intelligent Living and Avert Mental by James Mortimer Keniston (1916)
"Sometimes man finds her memory only too accurate for his own comfort. Woman can think, and can express her ideas clearly and fluently. ..."

5. From Kirtland to Salt Lake City by James Alexander Little (1890)
"The mother, destitute of every comfort woman is supposed to need in her condition, also sickened but finally rallied and recovered. ..."

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