yamen
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of yamen
1820–30; < Chinese yámen ( yá office + mén gate)
Example Sentences
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An hour or so is spent waiting in the yamen next morning, apparently for the gratification of visitors continually arriving.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
Its main entrance is large and imposing, and the great gates suggest those of the yamen of some high official.
From Chinese Folk-Lore Tales by J. (John) Macgowan
This is evidently the yamen or mandarin's quarter, and here we halt before a door, while our guide enters another one, and disappears.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
Why do you raise such an uproar in front of my yamen?
From A Chinese Wonder Book by Li Chu-T'ang
We visited the Confucian Temple among the trees and the examination hall close by, and another yamen, and the Temple of the God of Riches.
From An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma by George Ernest Morrison
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