I had always thought Geisha was a sort of high class prostitute.
No self-respecting woman of any class would dare ever go without breast support at any time, and especially not at a high-class affair.
Nevertheless a scientific character was so adroitly assumed that scientific men - some of them even ornithologists - have thence been led to believe the text had a scientific value, and that of a high class.
The greater quantity of high-class toilet soaps are now made by a milling process.
A high class soap, which after framing contains about 30% of water, is brought down to a water content of 11-14% by drying in chambers through which warm air is circulated.