Chinee
Britishnoun
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Luck of Roaring Camp made Harte's reputation; the humorous poem The Heathen Chinee made him a national figure.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suppose you want to multipy twenty-five by thirty-six, Chinee system?
From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Henry Wallace Phillips
The house-boat Heathen Chinee lay but a short distance off, and Scrymgeour could see the owner gazing after his daughter placidly, a pipe between his lips.
From My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke by Maurice Brazil Prendergast
"Me b'lieve Chinee joss pigeon, too," added Yen cheerfully.
From Mortmain by Arthur Cheny Train
And Maly answer he request: "My like Chinee Joss-pidgin best: My love Kwan-wán21 with chilo neat, And Joss-stick22 smellee velly sweet."
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various
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