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7.7. What is an ikemen?
Ikemen comes from Japanese ikeru "cool", "good", "exciting"
and men (面) "face". It is used for a good-looking man, for
example Kimutaku (see 9.3. What are these funny words like rimokon? ). The men
in ikemen has nothing to do with the English word "men".
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