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MENTION "mamasan" and one would expect women in their late 40s or 50s.
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Celeste had the air of a sophisticated mamasan in a colonial Vietnamese brothel, barking orders at us like we were her white orchids and a high-ranking GI had just popped in for a quick fivesome.
i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010
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Celeste had the air of a sophisticated mamasan in a colonial Vietnamese brothel, barking orders at us like we were her white orchids and a high-ranking GI had just popped in for a quick fivesome.
i know i am, but what are you? SAMANTHA BEE 2010
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The plain wood floor is covered here and there by rugs, and the mamasan, who comes up and smiles and says, “You want nice girl?” is creepy.
GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010
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He blamed the basket of snakes he brought back from Vietnam and even blamed the mamasan he accidentally killed in a hooch in the Central Highlands and whose forgiveness he still sought in his sleep.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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He blamed the basket of snakes he brought back from Vietnam and even blamed the mamasan he accidentally killed in a hooch in the Central Highlands and whose forgiveness he still sought in his sleep.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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The plain wood floor is covered here and there by rugs, and the mamasan, who comes up and smiles and says, “You want nice girl?” is creepy.
GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010
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The plain wood floor is covered here and there by rugs, and the mamasan, who comes up and smiles and says, “You want nice girl?” is creepy.
GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010
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Army talk me I can go my home America, talk my mamasan, no die, no fini.
GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010
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Army talk me I can go my home America, talk my mamasan, no die, no fini.
GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010
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