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

We have looked at a good many Chinese houses, but can't quite make up our minds about renting one.

From Peking Dust by La Motte, Ellen Newbold

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 Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)

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 Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

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

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