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scholar's rock en · NOUN

Meanings

1. An unusually shaped rock, traditionally appreciated by Chinese scholars.
   • What the missionaries had sent to Bertin was the type now commonly referred to as a scholar's rock, sometimes fantastically contorted stones which would have been an indispensable fixture of a Chinese scholar's studio. 2020, John Finlay, Henri Bertin and the Representation of China in Eighteenth-Century France:
   • The scholar's rock is placed across from the old moon gate I love so much, and LuLu decides to investigate it. 2007, Emily Prager, Wuhu Diary, page 122:
   • The many Tibetans who traveled to Yuan and Ming China would have developed knowledge, experience, and appreciation for scholars' rocks. 2004, Robert N. Linrothe, Paradise and Plumage, page 24:

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wikipedia: Lingbi County