Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Cathay"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cathay \Ca*thay"\, 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.)
Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.
--Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Cathay
n : an archaic or literary name for China [syn: {Cathay}]
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