Foochow
Americannoun
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Older Spelling. Fuzhou.
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Also called Northern Min. a dialect of Chinese spoken in and around Fuzhou.
noun
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Besides the missionaries who visited Foochow, other travelers speak of finding groups of underground Christians in many villages and cities.
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A few days later a note was received at Foochow from Lu Sing-pan.
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Foochow, about 400 miles southwest from Shanghai in the Province of Fukien.
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In Shanghai, Tientsin, Hankow, Chungking, Foochow and Swatow, thousands of shops and factories have gone bankrupt.
From Time Magazine Archive
By five o'clock in the afternoon, a deputy had arrived from the magistracy at Foochow, twelve miles distant, empowered to hold the usual inquest on behalf of the magistrate.
From China and the Chinese by Herbert Allen Giles
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