- a variation of Shantou.
Swatow
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I found it moving to walk among the temples and tiny shop houses of Chinatown, a reminder of the melancholy lives of its Cantonese, Swatow, Hakka and Hokkien settlers.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2011
But there were enough planes left to make carrier-aviation history, by swooping down on the China coast to attack Amoy, Swatow and the captive British colony of Hong Kong.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Swatow they were taken overland in trucks to Shiuchow, 240 miles away, headquarters of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Southeastern Chinese Army.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were at least six of them, Russian-designed "Swatow" gunboats armed with 37-mm. and 28-mm. guns, and P-4s.
From Time Magazine Archive
The boys invested a portion of their wealth for a quantity of Swatow oranges, about the size of heavy bullets.
From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Shute, A. B.
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