Chu-ma-tien
English
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Map including Chu-ma-tien (DMA, 1975)
Etymology
From Mandarin 駐馬店/驻马店 (Zhùmǎdiàn) Wade–Giles romanization: Chu⁴-ma³-tien⁴.
Proper noun
Chu-ma-tien
- Alternative form of Zhumadian
- 1921, E. G. Kemp, Chinese Mettle, Hodder and Stoughton, OCLC 1516880, OL 6642707M, page 171:
- And what, meanwhile, of General Feng and his army? They were ordered to go to Chu-ma-tien in Honan.
- 1913, Kendall, Elizabeth, A Wayfarer in China: Impressions of a Trip Across West China and Mongolia, Houghton Mifflin Company, OCLC 1063136306, page 224:
- And he did even better than his word, wiring ahead to the nights' stopping-places, Chu-ma-tien and Chang-te-ho, and when the train pulled in at each place, I was charmingly welcomed by the division superintendent with an invitation from his wife to put up with them;[...]
- 2013, Abbott, Maureen, New Lights from Old Truths: Living the Signs of the Times, volume IV, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, →ISBN, OCLC 900651003, page 375:
- The Jubilee Mass had a special solemnity due to the presence of two exiled Chinese bishops—Thomas Cardinal Tien, Archbishop of Peking, and Bishop Joseph Yuen, of Chu-ma-tien, Honan—as well as the recently named bishop of Taichung, Formosa, Most Rev. William Kupfer, MM, who was in the United States to attend the Maryknoll General Chapter.
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Translations
Zhumadian — see Zhumadian