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单词 Cathayan
释义 Cathayan, a. and n.|kæˈθeɪən|
Also -aian.
[f. med.L. Cat(h)aya + -an. Cf. Cataian.]
Chinese.
1667Milton P.L. x. 293 Mountains of Ice, that stop th'imagin'd way Beyond Petsora Eastward, to the rich Cathaian Coast.Ibid. xi. 388 Cambalu, seat of Cathaian Can.1757J. Dyer Fleece in Poems (1761) iii. 140 A double wealth; more rich than Belgium's boast, Or the Cathayan's, whose ignobler care Nurses the silkworm.1876Encycl. Brit. V. 628/1 The identity of these Cathayans with the Seres of classic fame.1928Blackw. Mag. Jan. 1/1 To push back a Cathayan encroachment.1928H. Lamb Genghis Khan xiii. 126 The Cathayans must have suffered that winter.
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