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Definition of Kibei
1. Noun. (American English) A Japanese-American who is born in the United States but primarily educated in Japan. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kibei
1. one born in America of immigrant Japanese parents and educated in Japan [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kibei
Literary usage of Kibei
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1902)
"kibei told them his master would make them all comfortable if they would go ...
But the simple folks did not know of the barrier, and kibei hired people of ..."
2. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"... in the Annales des Sciences Naturelle» for 1835, has subdivided the genus
kibei into the genera authenticated as his among our synonymes. ..."
3. The English Physician Enlarged: With Three Hundred and Sixty Nine Medicines by Nicholas Culpeper (1801)
"... ihe kernels or knot« in the neck or throat, callea the king's evil ; healing
kibei and chilblains if li.ry be ..."
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