Chinese houses

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(used with a singular or plural verb)

1. a plant, Collinsia heterophylla, of the figwort family, native to California, having clusters of double-lipped purple and white flowers.

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Chinese houses

On the roofs of several Chinese houses, I saw jars, some with the mouth, others with the bottom turned towards the street.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

During the first two or three years at Chang Te Fu we lived in unhealthy Chinese houses, which were low and damp.

From How I Know God Answers Prayer The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time by Goforth, Rosalind

The Chinese houses have not so many stories as ours; in the towns there is one floor above the ground floor, but in the country there are no rooms up stairs.

From Far Off by Mortimer, Favell Lee

Chinese houses are not heated as ours are, though the flues from the cooking fire, running under the brick kang, give some heat, too much at times.

From New Forces in Old China An Inevitable Awakening by Brown, Arthur Judson

Like most Chinese houses it was composed of a number of buildings arranged in the form of a square with a courtyard in the center.

From The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller