cathay

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Noun
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Ca=thay

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun cathay has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

cathayn. 
     China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.)  [1913 Webster]
    "Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cathay, n. archaic or poet. the country China.

Etymology
med.L Cataya

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