Chinee
9.9
Relates to China, its people, language or culture and appears in older speech
- adjective
- Slur
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[término arcaico y despectivo para «chino»]
- He collected Chinee porcelain during his travels in Asia.
Examples
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The Chinee restaurant on Main Street serves excellent dim sum.
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He loves Chinee art and has a collection of jade sculptures.
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The old sign read 'Fine Chinee Teas' in faded letters above the shop door.
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Writers in the 1800s sometimes used the word Chinee to describe Chinese traditions.
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The old sign read 'Fine Chinee Teas' in faded letters above the shop door.
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Writers in the 1800s sometimes used the word Chinee to describe Chinese traditions.
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He loves Chinee art and has a collection of jade sculptures.
Synonyms
Surface Forms
Chinee positive
Etymology
Chinee is an old form of the name China or Chinese, used in the 1800s to mean 'from China'. So it once described things or people connected to China, but it is now old-fashioned and can be offensive.
