| 单词 | flowery nation |
| 释义 | > as lemmasFlowery Nation c. Flowery Empire, Flowery Kingdom, Flowery Land, or Flowery Nation [translating Chinese hwa kwo] : China. Flowery Land also = Florida. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Far East > [noun] > China Middle Kingdom1662 Middle Empire1698 Cathay1744 the Celestial Empire1824 Flowery Land1847 1847 R. Fortune Three Years' Wanderings China i. 2 Was this..the ‘flowery land’,..of which I had heard so much in England? 1859 M. Reid Oceola i The Flowery Land. 1862 Once a Week 26 July 138/1 Celestials of the ‘flowery’ empire. 1867 F. S. Cozzens Sayings i. 4 Silk, sir, came from the Flowery Nation. 1870 Macmillan's Mag. XXIII. 172/1 Nor has Christianity..ever been able to obtain a solid footing in the Flowery Land [sc. China]. 1901 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 Oct. 8/4 Two of the big Chinese companies have had men at work at Ross Bay cemetery..exhuming the bodies of their dead countrymen for shipment home to China where all loyal citizens of the Flowery Kingdom wish to have their last resting place. < as lemmas |
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