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

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

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

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)

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

The numerative of Chinese houses is a word which denotes division, signifying not a room, but rather such a part of a dwelling as can conveniently be covered by timbers of one length.

From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Smith, Arthur H.