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A plant of the genus Aralia the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese The Chinese plant Aralia Schinseng has become so rare that the American A quinquefolia has largely taken its place and its root is now an article of export from America to China The root when dry is of a yellowish white color with a sweetness in the taste somewhat resembling that of licorice combined with a slight aromatic bitterness...
Chippendale
Designating furniture designed or like that designed by Thomas Chippendale an English cabinetmaker of the 18th century Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation sculptured either in the solid wood or in the cheaper specimens separately and glued on In the more elaborate pieces three types are recognized French Chippendale having much detail like Louis Quatorze and Louis Quinze Chinese Chippendale marked by latticework and pagodalike pediments and Gothic Chippendale attempting to adapt medieval details The forms as of the cabriole and chairbacks often resemble Queen Anne In chairs the seat is widened at the front and the back toward the top widened and bent backward except in Chinese Chippendale in which the backs are usually rectangular...
Chinoiserie
Chinese conduct art decoration or the like also a specimen of Chinese manners art decoration etc...
Badian
An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family Illicium anisatum and its aromatic seeds Chinese anise star anise...
Kwannon
Japanese counterpart of the Chinese Kuan Yin...
Lorcha
A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China having the hull built on a European model and the rigging like that of a Chinese junk...
VerbarLikin
A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit...
lichee
A Chinese tree Litchi chinensis cultivated especially in the Philippines and India for its edible fruit the litchi nut sometimes placed in the genus Nephelium...
Li
A Chinese measure of distance being a little more than one third of a mile...
Lao tse
A Chinese philosopher who founded Taoism in the 6th century bc...
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