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China

noun

A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world. Synonyms: Cathay, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China.

High quality porcelain originally made only in China.

A government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong. Synonyms: Nationalist China, Republic of China, Taiwan.

Dishware made of high quality porcelain. Synonym: chinaware.

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... the Archers gone, found himself, as senior captain, temporarily in command of the post, and called upon to furnish military escort for the civil posse comitatus. Stannard was a soldier pure and simple. He would have shown as a mammoth bull in a china shop had he and his troop been at the moment in the Southern states, instead of the south-western territory. He stood ready to do any amount of arresting the government might order. He was entirely willing ...

— Tonio, Son of the Sierras - A Story of the Apache War • Charles King

... as in the house of the brandy distiller, whose possessions give to him and his two brewers the right of election. It is the same food which is presented to us; in the small towns one has it on earthenware, in Copenhagen on china. If one had only the courage, in the so-called higher classes, to break through the gloss which life in a greater circle, which participation in the customs of the world, has called forth, one should soon find in many a lady of rank, in many a nobleman who sits not alone in the ...

— O. T. - A Danish Romance • Hans Christian Andersen

... comes next. Just think of three such events within a week as that sea battle off Denmark, the greatest naval battle of the world; the torpedoing of the Secretary of War and all of his staff; and the poisoning of the Emperor of China. I doubt if there ever was a period in the whole history of the world when things moved as fast and there was as much that was exciting. Of course now we have it all thrown onto a screen in front of our faces, whereas a hundred years ago ...

— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane

... Peru, where we had continued by the space of one whole year, for China and Japan, by the South Sea, taking with us victuals for twelve months; and had good winds from the east, though soft and weak, for five months' space and more. But then the wind came about, and settled in the west ...

— Ideal Commonwealths • Various

... cloth which covered the tray. The meal consisted of three kidneys and two eggs, and a great pile of buttered toast. The steam curled out of the spout of a dainty china teapot, and there was a small ...

— Through the Fray - A Tale of the Luddite Riots • G. A. Henty

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