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

I escaped sometimes, and found myself in Chinese houses, with cane tables, &c. 

From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas

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

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

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)

I escaped sometimes, and found myself in Chinese houses with cane tables, etc.

From The Opium Habit by Day, Horace B.