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Celestial Empire

name

Etymology

Calque of Literary Chinese 天朝 (Tiāncháo).

  1. derived from 天朝

Definitions

  1. The Empire of China.

    • Among the leading features of the quincuplex troupe are / A Party of Chinese Jugglers and Artists / Recently arrived from the Celestial Empire, […]
    • And then he possessed the most delightful chinoiseries—trophies of his sojourn in the Celestial Empire: pagodas of ebony and cabinets of ivory; sculpted monsters, […].
    • It is true, there is Turkish of which I had picked up a few phrases, and there is Chinese of which I did not understand a single word. But I had no fear of remaining dumb in Turkestan and the Celestial Empire.

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