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Examples
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But doggies and catties are fine, even though we over-love them: one in three pets in Britain is now overweight, according to a recent survey.
Mary Bale would have got away with it if she hadn't picked on a fluffy animal 2010
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The spouse of the marquis of Chin Hsiang comes next, with no more than twenty catties a day.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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This baby talk for people who enjoy a good meal is so ubiquitous that perhaps it must be tolerated-I'm trying to be nice-and then we can allow folks who treasure their pet companions to be called "doggies," "catties" and "birdies."
Heretical Veggies, And A Courageous Chicken In Every Pot 2003
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As she spoke, she took Tai-yü by the hand, and they came along back to the Hsiao Hsiang Kuan; where lady Feng had indeed sent her two small catties of a new season tea, of superior quality.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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This baby talk for people who enjoy a good meal is so ubiquitous that perhaps it must be tolerated-I'm trying to be nice-and then we can allow folks who treasure their pet companions to be called "doggies," "catties" and "birdies."
Heretical Veggies, And A Courageous Chicken In Every Pot 2003
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“For two large, sedan chairs,” he said, “four small sedan chairs and four carriages, are needed in all so many large and small tassels, each tassel requiring so many catties of beads and thread.”
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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"Well, in that case," responded dowager lady Chia, "let us fix upon five catties a day, and every month come and receive payment of the whole lump sum!"
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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Did you and I moreover belong to a family that hadn't the means to afford any ginseng, it would be difficult to say how we could manage to get it; but were your father and mother-in-law to hear that it's good for your recovery, why not to speak of two mace of ginseng a day, but even two catties will be also within their means!
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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As she spoke, she took Tai-yü by the hand, and they came along back to the Hsiao Hsiang Kuan; where lady Feng had indeed sent her two small catties of a new season tea, of superior quality.
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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"For two large, sedan chairs," he said, "four small sedan chairs and four carriages, are needed in all so many large and small tassels, each tassel requiring so many catties of beads and thread."
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
chained_bear commented on the word catties
"According to a classic text... attributed to Tung-fang So in the second century B.C., '...Its flesh weighs a thousand catties roughly a thousand pounds, and may be used as dried meat for food...'"
—Richard Stone, Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant, (Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2001), 20
September 20, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word catties
"The main item of trade mentioned in these documents is horses, which the Chinese bought from the nomadic peoples north of Kucha in exchange for one thousand catties (roughly 1,300 pounds or 600 kg) of steel or roughly 1,000 Chinese feet of cloth."
--Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2012), 80-81
December 30, 2016