Chinese houses

American  

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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Example Sentences

So is the area around Beijing’s Beihai Lake, where old Chinese houses have been converted into shops.

From Seattle Times

"My editor makes fun of me for this. Like, I got sick of drawing school hallways and decided to draw complicated historical Chinese houses instead. What was I thinking?"

From Los Angeles Times

"The Chinese houses are slowly but surely building up market share at the expense of international players," said Philippe Espinasse, a former ECM banker at UBS and Nomura.

From Reuters

Certainly, the style of auctions at Poly and Guardian, and other top Chinese houses, is distinct from their high-tier counterparts in the West.

From New York Times

Here and there a solitary pagoda rises above the vast sea of human dwellings, which are generally of but one, seldom two stories in height, and built very much alike; for there is the same monotony in the Chinese houses as in the figures and costumes of the Chinese themselves.

From Project Gutenberg