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Chefoo

British  
/ ˈtʃiːˈfuː /

noun

  1. another name for Yantai

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Life in the new camp was more difficult than in Chefoo.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2015

The day after Pearl Harbour, Japanese troops marched into the Chefoo school and declared themselves in charge.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2015

But as a precaution, the couple sent their four children - Kathleen, James, Mary and John - to a school for foreigners in Chefoo on China's eastern coast in Shandong.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2015

Chou Wen-chung, 37, born in Chefoo, China, but now a U.S. citizen, heard the New York Philharmonic in the first New York performance of his "And the Fallen Petals," a Triolet for Orchestra.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the demon in the well, he finally decided, since Mr. Chefoo had been at the well ere proceeding down the path where the accident occurred.

From The Red Miriok by Anna M. Barnes

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