Definitions
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- noun In
Thailand , a male-to-femaletransgender person or person of athird gender , or aneffeminate homosexual male .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But he could not ignore the roar from the Taiwanese tourists in the audience when the ravishing kimono-clad kathoey completed her expert lip sync to a song by Sally Yeh, nor could he ignore the thunderous applause from the Latinos when a group of deviants in sequined, feathered, flame-red dresses performed an elaborate dance routine to the song “Baila Amigo.”
THE MOONLIT EARTH CHRISTOPHER RICE 2010
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But he could not ignore the roar from the Taiwanese tourists in the audience when the ravishing kimono-clad kathoey completed her expert lip sync to a song by Sally Yeh, nor could he ignore the thunderous applause from the Latinos when a group of deviants in sequined, feathered, flame-red dresses performed an elaborate dance routine to the song “Baila Amigo.”
THE MOONLIT EARTH CHRISTOPHER RICE 2010
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In Thailand, they are known as “kathoey” or “ladyboys.”
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One such known kathoey is former Muay Thai kickboxing champion Nong Toom.
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The contest is quite glamorous and highly-esteemed, but that is because Alcazar's itself is the most famous kathoey cabaret in Thailand.
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The Thai word translated as "transvestite" or "shemale" is khatoey, also spelled katoey, kathoey and several other ways.
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The home for the ladyboy or the kathoey as they are known in Thai.
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They instead tend to hover in the background or are served up as part of the local color, for example, the transsexuals known as kathoey.
PopMatters Carmelo Militano 2010
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Featuring two social outcasts as characters, Mai, a ladyboy Japanese kathoey who works as a hostess at some ladyboy pub and the unnamed hero, who recently got fired from his job due to a genetic disorder.
Anime Nano! 2009
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Featuring two social outcasts as characters, Mai, a ladyboy Japanese kathoey who works as a hostess at some ladyboy pub and the unnamed hero, who recently got fired from his job due to a genetic disorder.
Anime Nano! 2009
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