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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