Definition of えぼし
- (n) black-lacquered headgear (made of silk, cloth or paper) originally worn by court nobles in ancient Japan, and afterwards spreading to the common people
Words related to えぼし
- (n) adult name
- (n) goose barnacle
- (n) Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia physalis)
- (n) red eboshi (headgear worn by Japanese men prior to and during the Edo period, which was ordinarily black in color)
- metaphor for an odd item or having a taste for such an item
- (n) soft, crumpled, unlacquered headwear (often worn by soldiers under their helmets from the Kamakura period onward)
- (exp) Family members should fall into line with the head of the family even if his taste is a little odd, like wearing a red eboshi, which is ordinarily black
- (n) creased eboshi hat
- (n) turaco (any bird of family Musophagidae, esp. the Knysna turaco, Tauraco corythaix); touraco; loerie; lourie
- (n) black silk or paper triangle worn over the forehead (usu. worn by children)
- (n) man-of-war fish (Nomeus gronovii)
