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Foochowese en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, dated) Alternative form of Foochownese.
    • The native of Canton is a foreigner to his brother of Amoy, not only in language, but in disposition : and the Ningpo man is as far removed from a Foochowese as the man of Kent is from the Highlander. 1885, Edwin Joshua Dukes, “Our Chinese Brethren in Christ”, in Everyday Life in China or Scenes Along River and Road in Fuh-kien, Religious Tract Society, →OCLC, page 228:

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Foochowese en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, dated) Alternative form of Foochownese.
    • I know Americans of extensive mission experience who can preach as long and as fluent a sermon in Foochowese as in English, yet who can no more make themselves understood anywhere else in China than if they had never crossed the Pacific. 1925, Harry A. Franck, Roving Through Southern China, The Century Company, →OCLC, page 183: