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Chinese houses
noun
- a plant, Collinsia heterophylla, of the figwort family, native to California, having clusters of double-lipped purple and white flowers.
Example Sentences
So is the area around Beijing’s Beihai Lake, where old Chinese houses have been converted into shops.
"My editor makes fun of me for this. Like, I got sick of drawing school hallways and decided to draw complicated historical Chinese houses instead. What was I thinking?"
"The Chinese houses are slowly but surely building up market share at the expense of international players," said Philippe Espinasse, a former ECM banker at UBS and Nomura.
Certainly, the style of auctions at Poly and Guardian, and other top Chinese houses, is distinct from their high-tier counterparts in the West.
Here and there a solitary pagoda rises above the vast sea of human dwellings, which are generally of but one, seldom two stories in height, and built very much alike; for there is the same monotony in the Chinese houses as in the figures and costumes of the Chinese themselves.
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