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Kweiyang

British  
/ ˈkweɪˈjæŋ /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Guiyang

"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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Grim, cold, filthy Kweiyang, swarming with abjectly miserable refugees, was reprieved, and China with it.

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The enemy had moved to within 120 miles of Kweiyang, an air base city near the eastern end of the Burma Road.

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Kweiyang folk indulged in a kind of three-day gambling festival.

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Driven from one town to another by the Japanese invasion, the medical workers finally settled in the hills of Kweiyang, Kweichow, in thatched huts of log and plaster.

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Kweiyang, in Kweichow Province, and Yiin-nanfu, capital of Yunnan, only 400 miles from the Tibetan frontier.

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