Chinese houses

American  

noun

(used with a singular or plural verb)

1. a plant, Collinsia heterophylla, of the figwort family, native to California, having clusters of double-lipped purple and white flowers.

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Chinese houses

It was my duty to be one of a post six men hastily sent here and entrenched on the fringe of our defence in one of these Chinese houses.

From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

There are others who took possession of Chinese houses wholesale, and found a source of income in letting or leasing them.

From Impressions of a War Correspondent by George Lynch

Below there is a village, with clusters of Chinese houses on the ground, and Malay houses on stilts, standing singly, with one or two Government offices bulking largely among them.

From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

A very common sign on the Chinese houses was: "See Yup, Washer and Ironer"; "Hong Wo, Washer"; "Sam Sing & Ah Hop, Washing."

From Roughing It, Part 6. by Mark Twain

But not all the Chinese houses were so ostentatiously open: most of them lay hidden with closed doors in high-walled gardens, tucked away in the secrecy of their domestic life.

From The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java by Louis Couperus