Cathay

One airline that has already banned shipments on its passenger flights is Cathay Pacific.
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This is the story of the Jesuit who more than 500 years ago made himself part of Cathay.
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Even the light eyes seemed to have grown slightly oblique; the voice, the unimpassioned greeting, were those of a son of Cathay.
Dope|Sax Rohmer
Three years of the fifty have now passed, and each one of the young women I met in Cathay has married.
A Bicycle of Cathay|Frank R. Stockton

He saw Peru with its riches; he saw fabled Cathay; he saw the uttermost isles of the distant sea.
South American Fights and Fighters|Cyrus Townsend Brady
With the threat of help from Earth for Cathay, he had been forced to delay while larger fleets were built.
Victory|Lester del Rey
His plans had never been based on holding back the seemingly weak forces of Cathay.
Victory|Lester del Rey

British Dictionary definitions for Cathay

Cathay

/ (kæˈθeɪ) /

noun

a literary or archaic name for China

Word Origin for Cathay

C14: from Medieval Latin Cataya, of Turkic origin

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