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Foochow

American  
[foo-chou, foo-joh] / ˈfuˈtʃaʊ, ˈfuˈdʒoʊ /

noun

  1. Older Spelling. Fuzhou.

  2. Also called Northern Min.  a dialect of Chinese spoken in and around Fuzhou.


Foochow British  
/ ˈfuːˈtʃaʊ /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Fuzhou

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Last week Chinese land forces launched an offensive that carried them to the gates of Nanchang and Foochow, the latter on the coast 880 miles east of Chungking.

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Foochow, about 400 miles southwest from Shanghai in the Province of Fukien.

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Along the thin Japanese shell of coastline, Chinese broke through to enter Foochow, one of China's important ports, and captured the nearby airport.

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His marines marched into Foochow, the rebel capital, almost unopposed because the veterans of the 19th Route Army who stood off Japan in the Battle of Shanghai have been largely replaced by stumbling recruits.

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Tsin Gan, 1841, 8vo: Maclay and Baldwin, Foochow, 1870, 8vo, 1123 pages.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

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