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- noun Plural form of
Cathayan .
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Examples
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_The Cathayans must be as civilized as we are to make such a thing_, she thought as she put the box in her chest.
The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963
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With these Agrican, not distinguished in the crowd, entered the place, driving both Circassians and Cathayans before him, and the portcullis being dropped, he was shut in.
The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831
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With these Agrican, not distinguished in the crowd, entered the place, driving both Circassians and Cathayans before him, and the portcullis being dropped, he was shut in.
Legends of Charlemagne Thomas Bulfinch 1831
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Turkes and nations of those parts and the Cathayans.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Haython4 and Paulus Venetus5 call them Cathayans.]
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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