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Idiom

comfort girl

Meaning

A female sex slave; prostitute.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“History books describe the tragic lives of the comfort girls.”

“The museum exhibition tells the painful stories of women forced to serve as comfort girls during the war.”

“Scholars continue to document the systemic abuse endured by those forced into the role of comfort girls, ensuring their suffering is not erased from historical memory.”

Examples

simple

“History books describe the tragic lives of the comfort girls.”

contextual

“The museum exhibition tells the painful stories of women forced to serve as comfort girls during the war.”

complex

“Scholars continue to document the systemic abuse endured by those forced into the role of comfort girls, ensuring their suffering is not erased from historical memory.”

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