Chinee

British  

/ tʃaɪˈniː /

noun

1. old-fashioned a Chinaman

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Example Sentences

In 1923, riots attended her first public recitation of a clamjamfry called Fa�ade: The sound of the onycha When the phoca has the pica In the palace of the Queen Chinee!

From Time Magazine Archive

Luck of Roaring Camp made Harte's reputation; the humorous poem The Heathen Chinee made him a national figure.

From Time Magazine Archive

Afóng, our olo cook down stairs, Make teachee Maly Chinee players:23 Say, if my chin-chin Fô24—oh joy!—

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various

Artemis in Sierra is as good in its way as the Heathen Chinee, and the very different metre employed in that poem is made equally effective as the vehicle of irony and burlesque.

From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Merwin, Henry Childs

On the contrary what he wished to remark, and like the Heathen Chinee his language was plain, was that, "If the Bill becomes an Act it will be born with a rope round its neck."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 by Various