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- noun a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port
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Examples
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Kwangchow does the shuffling, anthemic thing that I Walk The Earth, but it manages to be even better.
Creased or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You the Way it is 2006
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It bleeds through all King Biscuit Time songs, whether as the spare mournfulness like of Izzum, the anthemic Stone Roses shufflepop of Kwangchow, even the dreamy, spiralling Aphex Twin does Sigur Ros of Rising Son.
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But all the electronic flourishes and world music within Black Gold – the oriental fills in recent single Kwangchow, the gorgeous Kraftwerk closer Metalbiscuit – can't hide Steve Mason's inescapable gift for melody.
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KRISTOF: ... and that means that he is from the southern province of Guangdong, and he lives in what used to be called Canton, but now everybody refers to as Kwangchow, and ...
China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power 1994
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Most of the settlers arrived in Jalan Raja Uda in the 1920s and 1930s from Kwangchow, a sub-provincial city that is the capital of Guangdong province in southern China.
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KWANGCHOW, China - The She-tsan Kuan restaurant was located somewhere within the chaotic bowels of Kwangchow, a city of 3.5 million Chinese and 1 million bicycles in 1976.
unknown title 2009
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The descendants of settlers from Kwangchow have been waiting a dozen years for the compensation they were promised after they were forced to vacate their family homes along Jalan Raja Uda in Butterworth to make way for a major property development project.
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The descendants of settlers from Kwangchow have been waiting a dozen years for the compensation they were promised after they were forced to vacate their family homes along Jalan Raja Uda in Butterworth to make way for a major property development project.
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Most of the settlers arrived in Jalan Raja Uda in the 1920s and 1930s from Kwangchow, a sub-provincial city that is the capital of Guangdong province in southern China.
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And now The Beta Band are dead, King Biscuit Time can release gems like Kwangchow.
Creased or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You the Way it is 2006
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