Chinese houses

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noun

(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

When you get macaroons and little cakes here in straight Chinese houses you realize that neither we nor the Europeans were the first to begin eating.

From Letters from China and Japan by John Dewey

Below there is a village, with clusters of Chinese houses on the ground, and Malay houses on stilts, standing singly, with one or two Government offices bulking largely among them.

From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

There are nothing but small Chinese houses and walls on every side, making it impossible to move beyond our lines without demolishing and breaking through heavy brickwork.

From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

They go into the homes of the people, preach in village streets, sleep unprotected in Chinese houses, and receive much personal kindness from all classes.

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

It was my duty to be one of a post six men hastily sent here and entrenched on the fringe of our defence in one of these Chinese houses.

From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale