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Definition of joss house in English: joss housenoun A Chinese temple. Example sentencesExamples - Each joss house was usually created and used by Chinese from the one village or district of origin.
- Bendigo's Joss House is an internationally-known landmark, one of the oldest joss houses still in use as a place of worship in Australia.
- The joss houses or temples of Chinatown have no external beauty save in the carved panels of their balconies.
- Sui Sin Far places Pat and Pan in front of the joss house, in a Chinatown setting, in an effort to disrupt the social construction of racial identity, the imposition of Otherness on Chinese- and Eurasian Americans.
- Commonly called joss houses, some of these temples survived into the twentieth century.
- The fronts of the joss houses and the restaurants were brightened with many colored lanterns, quaint carved gilded woodwork, potted plants and dwarf trees.
- The presence of two joss houses in such a small community is unusual - a subject Caltrans hopes to explore further in the interpretive report.
Definition of joss house in US English: joss housenoun A Chinese temple. Example sentencesExamples - Each joss house was usually created and used by Chinese from the one village or district of origin.
- Commonly called joss houses, some of these temples survived into the twentieth century.
- The joss houses or temples of Chinatown have no external beauty save in the carved panels of their balconies.
- Bendigo's Joss House is an internationally-known landmark, one of the oldest joss houses still in use as a place of worship in Australia.
- The presence of two joss houses in such a small community is unusual - a subject Caltrans hopes to explore further in the interpretive report.
- Sui Sin Far places Pat and Pan in front of the joss house, in a Chinatown setting, in an effort to disrupt the social construction of racial identity, the imposition of Otherness on Chinese- and Eurasian Americans.
- The fronts of the joss houses and the restaurants were brightened with many colored lanterns, quaint carved gilded woodwork, potted plants and dwarf trees.
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