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noun
Any of a group of Japanese women who were disfigured by the thermal flash from the fission bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, and who subsequently went on a highly publicized journey to obtain reconstructive surgery in the United States in 1955.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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Synonyms: A-bomb maiden
Antonyms: none provided
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