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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Chinese houses

She does not seem to have got the entrée into Chinese houses of the richer class.

From Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin by Eighth Earl of Elgin James

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

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

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 Rosalind Goforth

The Chinese houses have not so many stories as ours; in the towns there is one floor above the ground floor, but in the country there are no rooms up stairs.

From Far Off by Favell Lee Mortimer

When you get macaroons and little cakes here in straight Chinese houses you realize that neither we nor the Europeans were the first to begin eating.

From Letters from China and Japan by John Dewey