shantung
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3ADJ.
blue, light
VERB + SHANTUNG
wore
ADV.
away
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noun
A type of Chinese silk, originally undyed.
As she walked, the soft silk of her dress – she wore a blue shantung, full-skirted – blew away from the sea and flapped and clung to her legs.
The yellow beer, the light shantung suit and the gleaming white teeth were all alight with the trembling silver reflections that sprang from the sunlight on the water.
A fabric of some other material having the same characteristics.
name
Alternative form of Shandong.
The rest of the coast of China northward, as far as this chart is continued, is copied from the Missionary provincial charts, except in the direction of the coast, which is made more westerly, to accord with the situation of the Chantong or Shantung Promontory, at the entrance of the Yellow Sea, as observed in the voyage of Lord MACARTNEY.
(4) Ting Pao-cheng, lieut.-governor of Shantung, reports having sacrificed to the Tai Shan (泰山), inspected the Confucian Temple at Chüfow (the native place of Confucius), which has just undergone a thorough repair, and examined the dykes erected to protect the low lands, in the neighbourhood of Yuncheng, from the inundations of the Yellow River.
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5As she walked, the soft silk of her dress – she wore a blue shantung, full-skirted – blew away from the sea and flapped and clung to her legs.
WiktionaryThe yellow beer, the light shantung suit and the gleaming white teeth were all alight with the trembling silver reflections that sprang from the sunlight on the water.
WiktionaryThe rest of the coast of China northward, as far as this chart is continued, is copied from the Missionary provincial charts, except in the direction of the coast, which is made more westerly, to acco
Wiktionary(4) Ting Pao-cheng, lieut.-governor of Shantung, reports having sacrificed to the Tai Shan (泰山), inspected the Confucian Temple at Chüfow (the native place of Confucius), which has just undergone a th
WiktionaryWe uttered our chagrin that the spokesmen for the American conscience—aye, for the "conscience of civilization"—had sanctioned the confessed immorality of the Shantung award to satisfy a secret covena
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