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- noun Plural form of
Mantchoo .
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When this illustrious body, composed of Mantchoos, and in which Europeans, though subordinate, are the most active, condescended to look at the planetarium, which was among the presents which the king of England sent to the emperor of China by lord Macartney, Mr. Barrow was not able to make the president of this learned society understand the real merit of that instrument.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827 Various
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The Mantchoos of Tartary wear a scalp-lock, as do the modern Chinese.
Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866
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