List: archaic
Words or expressions no longer current or that are current only within a few special contexts.
archaic polite language auxiliary
- be, is
archaic noun noun (generic)
- striped fabric imported from Java (often cotton, sometimes mixed with silk)
archaic noun noun (generic)
- meeting one's master for the first time (of a new servant), ceremony at which a new servant has his first audience with his new master
noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ archaic
- waving a stick
- conductor (orchestra, etc.)
- Edo policeman
archaic noun noun (generic)
- sawtooth oak (Quercus acutissima), acorn
- dark grey, dark gray
archaic honorific language female term auxiliary verb verb (generic)
- to do
archaic expression
- please allow me to introduce myself
archaic noun noun (generic)
- silent person, taciturn person
archaic noun noun (generic)
- rolling one's kimono up to one's waist
archaic noun noun (generic)
- mistress, concubine, non-legal wife