Chinese houses

American  

noun

(used with a singular or plural verb)

1. a plant, Collinsia heterophylla, of the figwort family, native to California, having clusters of double-lipped purple and white flowers.

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Example Sentences

On the roofs of several Chinese houses, I saw jars, some with the mouth, others with the bottom turned towards the street.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

I escaped sometimes, and found myself in Chinese houses with cane tables, etc.

From The Opium Habit by Day, Horace B.

But not all the Chinese houses were so ostentatiously open: most of them lay hidden with closed doors in high-walled gardens, tucked away in the secrecy of their domestic life.

From The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java by Couperus, Louis

A very common sign on the Chinese houses was: "See Yup, Washer and Ironer"; "Hong Wo, Washer"; "Sam Sing & Ah Hop, Washing."

From Roughing It, Part 6. by Twain, Mark

During the first two or three years at Chang Te Fu we lived in unhealthy Chinese houses, which were low and damp.

From How I Know God Answers Prayer The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time by Goforth, Rosalind