グラビアアイドル

Japanese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from gravure +‎ idol,[1] equivalent to グラビア (gurabia) + アイドル (aidoru).

Noun

グラビアアイドル • (gurabia aidoru) 

  1. A pin-up girl, a (generally young) woman featured in sexy or alluring photographs or other images. Often pictured in a bikini or similarly revealing costume, but not nude.

References
  1. “グラビアアイドル”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
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