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- noun archaic A native or inhabitant of
Cathay , orChina .
Etymologies
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Examples
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One of a torrent of water falling from a great height with yet further to go where a camel-humped stone bridge,—quaint, Cathayan, yet sturdy, built with breadth,— spans it.
Archive 2008-04-01 Chris Perridas 2008
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One of a torrent of water falling from a great height with yet further to go where a camel-humped stone bridge,—quaint, Cathayan, yet sturdy, built with breadth,— spans it.
Antiquarian Weird Tales: A DAMSEL WITH A DULCIMER By MALCOLM FERGUSON Chris Perridas 2008
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   "I don't care if he was First Minister to the Grand Poobah of the Great Cathayan Empire," Cimorene said.
calling on dragons Wrede, Patricia C., 1953- 1993
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"I don't care if he was First Minister to the Grand Poobah of the Great Cathayan Empire," Cimorene said.
Calling On Dragons Wrede, Patricia C., 1953- 1993
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That old French poet understood in half a second more than your Hague tribunal could comprehend in its first Cathayan cycle!
The Younger Set 1899
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The past fifty years have wrought more change in the conditions of life than could many a Cathayan cycle.
Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates Helen Kendrick Johnson 1880
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To such great explorers, indeed, the realm of Cathayan story belongs by right of discovery and conquest; yet the humbler traveller who follows wonderingly after them into the vast and mysterious pleasure-grounds of Chinese fancy may surely be permitted to cull a few of the marvellous flowers there growing, -- a self-luminous
Some Chinese Ghosts Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Cathayan secretaries took down, in writing, the names of the ambassadors, and the number of their suite.
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The _Indian_, adds he, and the _Cathayan_, acknowledge one supreme Being, or first
Zadig Or, The Book of Fate 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736
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Fitted Cathayan report dates to morgue pc dates and fixed bum quest.
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