Chinese houses

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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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Chinese houses

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 Mark Twain

Like most Chinese houses it was composed of a number of buildings arranged in the form of a square with a courtyard in the center.

From The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor

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

From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

The numerative of Chinese houses is a word which denotes division, signifying not a room, but rather such a part of a dwelling as can conveniently be covered by timbers of one length.

From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Arthur H. Smith

Chinese houses are not heated as ours are, though the flues from the cooking fire, running under the brick kang, give some heat, too much at times.

From New Forces in Old China An Inevitable Awakening by Arthur Judson Brown