Pekin
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- proper noun
- /ˈpiːkɪn/
- Today, the Pekin serves tea in coffee cups and gives you stainless-steel knives and forks so you don't have to use chopsticks and spill food down the front of your dress.
- Pekin, Illinois
- Pekin, Ill.
- Pekin Eastern
Examples
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At age 55, I became a tournament tennis player. I still compete; my last win was the 2010 Tri-County doubles tournament with partner Bob Orr from Pekin.
Blog text (4) -
We celebrated at the Pekin and at the Rocky Mountain where we ordered Shawn's and bottles of red, but it wasn't the same.
Fiction book (1990) -
We passed the town of Pekin to the west and then Morton to the east.
Fiction book (1992) -
Or take Excel Foundry & Machine of Pekin, Ill.
Academic text (2009) -
Peoria-Pekin, Ill.
Blog text (3) -
If Jackfish was nursing an especially bad hangover on Sunday morning, he would sneak out to the Pekin Noodle Parlor for Chinese food.
Fiction book (1990) -
I lost in two semifinals, at Pekin and Springfield in '77, of events I'd beaten Antitoi in the finals of in '76.
Fiction book (1998) -
Old Shawn was busy that night, so she treated me and Whippy Bird to a farewell dinner at the Pekin Noodle Parlor, which was one of our favorites because it had little private rooms with shower curtains in the door so we could giggle and talk without anybody listening.
Fiction book (1990) -
Two Midwestern metros (Columbia, Mo.; and Peoria-Pekin, Ill.) and two Western metros (Fort Collins-Loveland, Colo.; and Anchorage, Alaska) made the list.
Blog text (3) -
The annual festival in Pekin, Illinois, attracts thousands of visitors each year.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pekin is the name of the Illinois town taken from an old Western name for China's capital, so the town was named after the city now called 'Beijing'.