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

These Chinese houses are charming from the outside.

From Peking Dust by La Motte, Ellen Newbold

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

But not all the Chinese houses were so ostentatiously open: most of them lay hidden with closed doors in high-walled gardens, tucked away in the secrecy of their domestic life.

From The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java by Couperus, Louis

There are others who took possession of Chinese houses wholesale, and found a source of income in letting or leasing them.

From Impressions of a War Correspondent by Lynch, George

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 Dewey, John