Chinaman
noun
a term used to refer to a Chinese person or a person of Chinese descent.
Chinamen
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pluralof Chinaman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Every few days a new opera is presented, in Chinese, by Chinamen and Chinawomen artists and singers, for a Chinese audience and entirely in the Chinese manner.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is the only white man to my knowledge ever to become a Chinese Mason, which is considered among Chinamen a great honor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then came a company of teamsters mounted on their draught horses, and carrying gay banners; and finally a delegation of Chinamen, preceded by a Chinese band and bearing aloft a huge flag of yellow silk.
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin
All Canton bombarded able-bodied Chinamen were called upon by the Viceroy of Canton to rally for the defence of their city.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Edwin Emerson
This often used to remind me of the parable of the virgins, and in reading that parable by the light of such a lamp one is able to make it very realistic to Chinamen.
From James Gilmour of Mongolia His diaries, letters, and reports by James Gilmour
