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Meaning of Chinee | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈt͡ʃaɪniː

Definitions

A person from China.

dated, ethnic, offensive, slur

Equivalents

Français chinée chinée

Examples

“But the hands that were played / By that heathen Chinee, / And the points that he made, / Were quite frightful to see,— / Till at last he put down a right bower, / Which the same Nye had dealt unto me.”
“We endure our abuses of orphanotrophism even when they are repulsive to the heathen Chinee.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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