All 22 Uses
accustomed
in
Memoirs of a Geisha
(Edited)
- Sayuri was clear that she wanted to dictate her memoirs rather than write them herself, because, as she explained, she was so accustomed to talking face-to-face that she would hardly know how to proceed with no one in the room to listen.
p. 2.9accustomed to = used to (adapted to something, so it seems normal)
- What happened next made very little sense to me at the time, because the complicated costume of kimono is confusing to people who aren't accustomed to it.
p. 64.3
- I'm so accustomed to running into her from time to time in the hallway ...Just yesterday I realized she must be terribly ill!
p. 132.5
- I can't possibly offer you the terms you're accustomed to.
p. 134.9
- But it's only a matter of what you're accustomed to hearing.
p. 143.3
- You see, stage fright drains the feeling from your hands; and when you've already grown accustomed to playing with hands that are numbed and miserable, stage fright presents much less of a problem.
p. 144.9
- We went to the fifteen or sixteen where Mameha was accustomed to entertaining.
p. 170.4
- I'd grown accustomed to wearing Mameha's kimono, but in fact, it's unusual for a geisha to lend out robes from her collection this way.
p. 193.2
- By this time I'd grown accustomed to the priceless kimono ensembles that Mameha's maid usually laid out for me; but when I arrived and began changing into an autumn-weight silk of scarlet and yellow, which showed leaves scattered in a field of golden grasses, I was taken aback to find a tear in the back of the gown large enough to put two fingers through.
p. 211.2
- Hatsumomo was delighted and watched us so openly that she didn't even seem aware of all the men's eyes upon her—or more likely, she was simply accustomed to the attention.
p. 225.4
- We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things; but when I pictured Mameha dancing her slow lament, hidden from the eyes of her husband and his mistress, I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.
p. 268.9accustomed to = used to (adapted to things, so they seem normal)
- Most geisha pride themselves on never carrying cash with them, and are accustomed to charging things wherever they go.
p. 279.3accustomed to = used to (adapted to something, so it seems normal)
- In fact, many of the men are accustomed to being treated with a great deal of respect.
p. 290.5
- Nowadays young girls, even in Japan, are accustomed to jumping up from the table and shouting at their mothers, but in my day we bowed and said, "Yes, ma'am," and apologized for having been troublesome; and that's exactly how I responded.
p. 292.3
- Already in 1938, we'd all grown accustomed to daily reports about the war in Manchuria;
p. 296.7
- I was so accustomed by this time to lavish surroundings that the shabbiness of the Suruya surprised me.
p. 304.4
- I won't pretend I experienced none of the clumsy moments I was accustomed to with the General, but I certainly didn't notice them in the same way.
p. 307.5accustomed to = used to (so it seems normal)
- She was too busy glaring at me, and with a look on her face I wasn't accustomed to seeing.
p. 323.2accustomed to = used to (adapted to something, so it seems normal)
- The Admiral seemed to me the sort of man who really was accustomed to winning.
p. 324.1 *
- In just the way that a man can grow accustomed to a bad leg, we'd all grown accustomed to having Hatsumomo in our okiya.
p. 331.6
- In just the way that a man can grow accustomed to a bad leg, we'd all grown accustomed to having Hatsumomo in our okiya.
p. 331.6
- Lately, however, all the kimono makers had been put to work sewing parachutes—for they were accustomed to working with silk, after all.
p. 343.6accustomed to = used to (adapted to something, so it does not seem unusual)
Definitions:
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(1)
(accustom) to make someone used to something
(used to is an expression that means someone has adapted to something, so it does not seem unusual)In professional environments, you may make a better impression by saying one is accustomed to something rather than one is used to something. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)