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 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.

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

A very common sign on the Chinese houses was: "See Yup, Washer and Ironer"; "Hong Wo, Washer"; "Sam Sing & Ah Hop, Washing."

From Roughing It, Part 6. by Twain, Mark

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

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