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单词 golden chersonese
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Golden Chersonese
Golden Chersonese n. now historical (with the) the Malay Peninsula. [After Hellenistic Greek Χρυσῆ Χερσόνησος; compare post-classical Latin Chersonesus Aurea (1518 or earlier; also Aurea Chersonesus).]
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1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill i. 7 And hauing passed the said gulph towards the East, & the mouth of Gangis, they discouered the other coast, at the point whereof (which the ancient call the golden Chersonesse [It. l'aurea Chersonesso]) they became Lords of the towne of Malaca.
1769 T. Smollett Present State All Nations VII. 124 It must then have been thro' ignorance or mistake, that the antients gave it the name of the Golden Chersonese.
1883 Boston Daily Advertiser 29 May 4/3 What it [sc. France] wants is the eastern half of the Golden Chersonese, the western half to go to England.
1921 McClure's Mag. Sept. 21 (title) Through the Golden Chersonese to Elephant Land.
2014 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 5 Oct. 20 Once upon a time there lived a little boy in a small town in a peninsula which was once known as the Golden Chersonese.
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