comfort girln.
/ˈkʌmfət ɡəːl/, U.S. /ˈkəmfərt ˌɡərl/ historical.
= comfort woman n.
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1945 Times 18 Sept. 3/3 The Japanese made repeated, but unsuccessful, efforts to turn these women into ‘comfort girls’ for Japanese officers.
1964 J. Leasor Passport Oblivion ii. 30 Was it true that the Japs had kept ‘comfort girls’ in the Tunnels?
1982 Associated Press (Nexis) 13 Aug. Newspapers here have run full pages of pictures depicting..the rounding up of Korean women to serve as ‘comfort girls’.
1995 T. Clancy & S. Pieczenik Op-Center lxvi. 299 His mother had been a comfort girl during the Second World War.
2012 Korea Times (Nexis) 31 Aug. For three years of service—the average—she said a comfort girl was raped 7,500 times.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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