All 5 Uses
auspicious
in
Memoirs of a Geisha
(Edited)
- Do you mean to say that you tried to run away without checking if the day was auspicious?
p. 126.4auspicious = favorable; or suggestive of good things to come
- "Well," she said after looking at it for a while, "it reads, 'An auspicious day for small changes.'"
p. 126.9
- Mameha took up my almanac again and this time selected several dates over the following weeks that would be auspicious for significant change.
p. 127.7 *auspicious = favorable
- And with that, she led me across the main avenue to the apartment of Waza-san, her fortune-teller, and set him to work finding auspicious dates for all the various events that would lead up to my debut—such as going to the shrine to announce my intentions to the gods, and having my hair done for the first time, and performing the ceremony that would make sisters of Mameha and me.
p. 161.1auspicious = favorable; or suggestive of good things to come
- Another was the following Monday, which also happened to be tai-an—the most auspicious day of the six-day Buddhist week.
p. 192.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(auspicious) favorable; or suggestive of good things to come
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)