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† Chinois
[a. F. chinois.]
= Chinese. Obs.
1613Purchas Pilgr. I. v. xvii. 460 The Chinois sometimes Lords of Zeilan. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. i. ii. (1636) 69 By St. Thomas the Chinoises, and Ethiopians were converted. 1667Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual. 19 As an Indian or Chinois would perchance do. a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts 132 The Chinoys who live at the bounds of the earth. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. i. 34 Some Runaway Chinois.
Hence ‖ chinoiserie [mod.F.], Chinese conduct, a Chinese art, ‘notion’, etc.
1883Harper's Mag. July 830/2 A bit of Chinoiserie. 1884Pall Mall G. 28 Aug. 3/1 One of those Chinoiseries that would seem to show that M. Ferry has not much to learn from the [Chinese]. 1885M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird II. 116 Japanese tea-trays, chinoiseries, unbreakable glass. |