"mama-san" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 340:",
          "text": "‘I had a last go at the film festival, hoping those Thai mammasans would stir you up with some juice kiddy-porn.’",
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          "text": "\"We just get one very small meal – a single rice ball or piece of bread,\" said Mieko Kono, a hostess bar \"mama-san\" who looks spectacularly out of place in the municipal office, dolled up as she is in her work clothes of leopard-print top and slacks.",
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