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

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

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

All the Chinese houses were decorated with plants and flowers, and from long cords stretched from house to house, and diagonally across the streets, were suspended hundreds upon hundreds of lanterns of various colors.

From The Shipwreck A Story for the Young by Spillman, Joseph

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 Brown, Arthur Judson

These Chinese houses are charming from the outside.

From Peking Dust by La Motte, Ellen Newbold