おちゅう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of おちゅう – see the following entry.

【御中】 [noun] (historical) a kind of hairstyle worn by women of the nobility in the late Edo period as a simplification of the 大垂髪 (ōsuberakashi) style, with no 簪 (kanzashi, “ornamental hairpin”) or other adornment, and with the long hair of an additional hairpiece allowed to hang loose in back

(This term, おちゅう (ochū), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)