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Amoy

NOUN
  1. any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

How To Use Amoy In A Sentence

  • Concern about a possible outbreak in Amoy Garden mounted on Saturday, when 22 of Hong Kong's 45 new SAR cases hospitalized that day were determined to be residents of the estate. Medpundit
  • The Samoyed breed is native to Northern Russia where they were used to keep children warm. Its fur is almost waterproof and softer than alpaca .
  • For those who buy into Nostratic or Indo-Uralic there's a possible cognate in Uralic, *t, which is used to form participles and infinitives in Finnic, Saami, Ob-Ugrian, and Samoyedic. The PIE *to-participle in my subjective-objective model
  • The Treaty of Nanking, which ended the First Opium War in 1842, ceded the island of Hong Kong to Britain, required the Chinese to pay $21 million indemnity, and opened the so-called treaty ports of Shanghai, Canton, Amoy, Foochow, and Ningpo to foreign trade. The Last Empress
  • Pin-tsun Chang, "Maritime Trade and Local Economy in Late Ming Fukien," 63 – 82; Ren-Chuan Lin, "Fukien's Private Sea Trade in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," 163 – 216; and Chin-Keong Ng, "The South Fukienese Junk Trade at Amoy from the Seventeenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries," 297 – 316. How Taiwan Became Chinese
  • The Samoyed tent is commonly covered with reindeer skins, the Ostyak tent with birch bark. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
  • Did there come war to the gates of our fair burgh, down went needles, thread, and shamoy leather, and out came the good head piece and target from the dark nook, and the long lance from above the chimney. The Fair Maid of Perth
  • Rhapta was described as a bustling metropolitan area located somewhere just inland from the central coast of mainland Azania, perhaps in the vicinity of modern-day Bagamoyo and Dar es Salaam. 10 It also indicated that Rhapta was the most southerly stopping point along the East African commercial route, and that merchants interested in making a round trip to Rhapta from one of Roman Egypt's Red Sea ports had to be ready to depart in July because that was when the climate cycle necessary to make the voyage began. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
  • The skin of the men, he remarks, was superior in toughness (consistance) and quality to shamoy; that of women was good for almost nothing, being so soft in texture! The French Revolution
  • The South Fukienese Junk Trade at Amoy from the Seventeenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries. How Taiwan Became Chinese
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