Hiroshima maiden (English, noun)
expansion: Hiroshima maiden (plural Hiroshima maidens)
Senses:
glosses: 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.
tags: historical
Forms:
form: Hiroshima maidens
tags: plural