- a variation of Zhejiang.
Chekiang
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It was forcing him out of Kiangsi, west of Chekiang.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last year there was an outbreak of plague in Chekiang, and the bureau rushed vaccines and fumigants to kill germ-bearing rats.
From Time Magazine Archive
For more than an hour and a half he spoke in his high-pitched Chekiang accent.
From Time Magazine Archive
The machine guns fascinated Chiang first; from his youth in Chekiang Province, he wanted to be a soldier.
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The extensive, close canalization that characterizes parts of Kiangsu and Chekiang provinces is lacking here and for this reason, in part, the soil is not so productive.
From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)
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