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(n.) 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.)

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Cathay'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/cathay.html. 1828.
 
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