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Hangchow

British  

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Hangzhou

"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, with a fanfare of propaganda, 70 labor heroes from Shanghai went off to beautiful West Lake at Hangchow, as the Russian speed-up kings were sent off to the sunny Crimea.

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He disappears for long stretches, reportedly to meditate in his navilion facing lovely West Lake in Hangchow.

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The most serious incident came a little more than a month ago, in the ancient garden city of Hangchow.

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Last spring, for example, there were strikes and work stoppages in Hangchow, apparently over the issue of higher wages.

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The seeds that I sent you last year is Castanopsis sp. grows near Hangchow, 100 feet high and ever green.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922 by Northern Nut Growers Association

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