Cathay
China.
Contemporary Examples
One airline that has already banned shipments on its passenger flights is Cathay Pacific.
Passenger Flights Must Stop Carrying Lithium-Ion Batteries as Cargo Clive Irving May 4, 2014
This is the story of the Jesuit who more than 500 years ago made himself part of Cathay.
James Fallows: 5 Favorite ‘Outsiders In China’ Books James Fallows May 10, 2012
Historical Examples
At last the game was won, the passage to Cathay was discovered.
History of the United Netherlands, 1590-1599, Vol. III. Complete John Lothrop Motley
Yet if she did, he was sure that it would have been impossible not to use them in defense of the colony of Cathay.
Victory Lester del Rey
Once more he talked over the finding of Cathay with the priests and the sailors of Palos.
Children’s Literature Charles Madison Curry
If one of those titans was to be used against Cathay, Earth’s colony was doomed.
Victory Lester del Rey
Cathay is a country where it is necessary to be very careful.
A Bicycle of Cathay Frank R. Stockton
The humans of Cathay might try a return raid, but he was unworried.
Victory Lester del Rey
Our hero and heroine instantly ceased their own discourse, when they found that the subject was the voyage to Cathay.
Mercedes of Castile J. Fenimore Cooper
He leaned back in his chair, wondering where “Cathay” might be.
At the Sign of the Jack O’Lantern Myrtle Reed
noun
a literary or archaic name for China
n.
1560s, poetic name for “China,” from Medieval Latin Cataya, from Turkish Khitai, from Uighur Khitai, name of a Tatar dynasty that ruled Beijing 936-1122.
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