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  • ZAHN: Oh! IVANS: So now we call hime, "Old Coincident."

    CNN Transcript Feb 12, 2002 2002

  • It's about a huge street trend among women in Japan called hime gyaru (means "princess girl") in which girls "aim to look like sugarcoated, 21st-century versions of old-style European royalty."

    cellar door 2008

  • -- Graduating sermon by Hon. --, of Princeton, N. J., closing "hime," "When shall we meet again?"

    Henry Ossian Flipper The Colored Cadet at West Point Flipper, Henry O 1878

  • Clearly these people have it wrong … My Alto-hime is better than that my plucky hime has leveled up to Soldaten-hime which is in every way superior to a mercenary.

    AnimeBlogger.net Antenna 2008

  • Clearly these people have it wrong … My Alto-hime is better than that my plucky hime has leveled up to Soldaten-hime which is in every way superior to a mercenary.

    AnimeBlogger.net Antenna 2008

  • Clearly these people have it wrong … My Alto-hime is better than that my plucky hime has leveled up to Soldaten-hime which is in every way superior to a mercenary.

    AnimeBlogger.net Antenna 2008

  • Clearly these people have it wrong … My Alto-hime is better than that my plucky hime has leveled up to Soldaten-hime which is in every way superior to a mercenary.

    AnimeBlogger.net Antenna 2008

  • Clearly these people have it wrong … My Alto-hime is better than that my plucky hime has leveled up to Soldaten-hime which is in every way superior to a mercenary.

    THAT Animeblog 2008

  • Clearly these people have it wrong … My Alto-hime is better than that my plucky hime has leveled up to Soldaten-hime which is in every way superior to a mercenary.

    AnimeBlogger.net Antenna 2008

  • Clearly these people have it wrong … My Alto-hime is better than that my plucky hime has leveled up to Soldaten-hime which is in every way superior to a mercenary.

    Anime Nano! 2008

  • “Unless the hime is renamed to something like the ‘step cut’, most people will know that it originated in Japan by the nature of the name,” she says.

    Lockdown locks: how the hime haircut zoomed to popularity Priya Elan 2021

  • “The hime haircut is a definite style statement and like the mullet is two haircuts in one,” said Shelley. “You can pull the longer layers back into a ponytail and you’ll still have a face-framing fringe and sides.”

    Lockdown locks: how the hime haircut zoomed to popularity Priya Elan 2021

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  • "Princess." A prominent example would be "Mononoke Hime" (called Princess Mononoke in English), roughly translating to "Spirit Princess."

    November 10, 2007