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ernai

ernai

See also: èrnǎi

English

Noun

ernai (plural ernai)

  1. A mistress or concubine in China.
    • 2013, James Palmer, ‘Kept women’, Aeon:
      She was adamant that I never visit her apartment because she was surrounded by other ernai.
    • 2015, Jemimah Steinfeld, Little Emperors and Material Girls, p. 91:
      An ernai agency operates in Shanghai, providing a menu of potential college students for men willing to pay.