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

During the first two or three years at Chang Te Fu we lived in unhealthy Chinese houses, which were low and damp.

From How I Know God Answers Prayer The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time by Goforth, Rosalind

This, like all Chinese houses in Peking, was built in a very rambling fashion, and with the gardens, covered about ten acres of ground.

From Two Years in the Forbidden City by Der Ling, Princess

Chinese houses are not heated as ours are, though the flues from the cooking fire, running under the brick kang, give some heat, too much at times.

From New Forces in Old China An Inevitable Awakening by Brown, Arthur Judson

Like most Chinese houses it was composed of a number of buildings arranged in the form of a square with a courtyard in the center.

From The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller

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

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