Definition of "shimada" [shimada]

• A town in Japan (proper-noun)
• The Shimada-mage traditional hairstyle for women in Japan in legend said to have been invented by the yujo (遊女, prostitutes) of Shimada (noun)

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• "My head was turned to the side as well, because I was wearing my hair in a style known as tsubushi shimada, with a dramatic chignon looped in the back, which would have been ruined if I'd put any weight on it."
• "A couple of years later, the jorowage yields in the turn to the shinjocho [6] '(' new-butterfly 'style), or the shimada, also called takawage."
• "The shimada, exquisitely elaborate, is; but the more respectable the family, the smaller the form of this coiffure; geisha and joro wear a larger and loftier variety of it, which properly answers to the name takawage, or"