Cataian
English
Noun
Cataian (plural Cataians)
- Obsolete form of Cathayan.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
found in twelth night Act I Scene III : "my lady's a Cataian, we are politicians ..." and can mean "My Lady can go to China for all I care, we are smart men ...".
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Cataian in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- Catania