English Explanatory Dictionary

Hiroshima maiden

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

Hiroshima maiden Hiroshima maidens

Synonyms

A-bomb maiden
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