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(Tw) betel nut beauty: a skimpily-dressed, attractive girl who sells betel nut from a glass-walled roadside booth

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“betel nut beauty” (previously common phenomenon of employing young, scantily clad women to sell betel nuts and cigarettes along the roadsides in Taiwan)