Meaning of Chinafolk | Babel Free

Definitions

Chinese people.

dated, plural, plural-only, rare

Examples

“Of course the first thing that struck us were the queer wheelbarrows used by the native population in place of the jinrikishas adopted from Japan for the Europeans. They are a cross between a huge wheelbarrow and a jaunting car; they have a division up the centre like the latter, and sometimes you will see a whole family of Chinafolk on the two sides.”

“When reports were first current (Time, Feb. 6 et seq.) that 12,000,000 Chinese seem likely to die of famine before next Spring, most citizens of the U. S. confidently left the whole ghastly and appalling problem to the Red Cross. If they thought about it at all, they saw in their minds’ eye long lines of Chinafolk, gratefully receiving huge bowls of steaming soup from white clad, starry-eyed young Red Cross nurses.”

“In Chinatown, the scene is animated, colorful and noisy, full of ordinary housewives and children and a host of quaint, quite extraordinary old Chinafolk.”

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