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Cathay arch. or poet.|kæˈθeɪ|
Also formerly Cathaye, ‖ Cataya, Cathaia.
[ad. med. and Renaissance L. Cat(h)aya, ad. Turkic Khitāy: cf. Kazan Tartar Kytai, Russ. Kitay China.]
= China n.1 1.
1565A. Jenckynson in S.P. Dom. Eliz. XXXVI. lx. f. 134 This Region of Cathaye. 1576(title) A trve discovrse of the late voyages of discouerie, for the finding of a passage to Cathaya, by the Northvveast, vnder the conduct of Martin Frobisher. 1576(title) A discovrse of a discouerie for a new passage to Cataia. Written by Sir Hvmfrey Gilbert. a1625Fletcher Woman's Prize iv. v. (1647) 118/2 I'le wish you in the Indies, or Cataya. 1823Byron Juan xii. ix. 9 The ship From Ceylon, Inde, or far Cathay, unloads. 1842Tennyson Locksley Hall 184 Thro' the shadow of the globe we sweep into the younger day: Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. 1954W. Faulkner Fable 348 A world such as caesar nor sultan nor khan ever saw, Tiberius nor Kubla nor all the emperors of the East ever dreamed of—no Rome and Baiae:..no Cathay. |